For historians, the retrospective legitimation of essentially every criminal act Nixon committed while in office is quite mind-boggling. Ford’s pardon was utterly unnecessary.
I just saw law prof Josh Chafetz at the bad place ask the same question I've been posing: How does this not enable POTUS to simply kill opponents at will?
To say nothing of ordering protesters be shot or indefinitely detained without charges etc.
It's all "official"
