President Donald Trump on Tuesday issued two pardons. It was one of the more conventional uses of the power we've seen from the president. The recipients were not convicted of taking bribes, or defrauding people to spend money on plastic surgery and OnlyFans, or engaging in a crypto money-laundering scheme.

Gobble and Waddle are turkeys. The pair will thus avoid becoming someone's dinner centerpiece tomorrow, as is Thanksgiving tradition. Lucky them.

Three years ago, I wrote about why the president—Joe Biden at the time, but all presidents, really—should focus on pardoning people, not turkeys. I'm no Scrooge. I love a holiday custom. It can stay! But the idea, hopefully, is that it also be liberally applied to humans, as the president's ability to give clemency is effectively the only ch

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