Words like “mercy” and “justice” don’t belong in the same sentence with President Trump. And now he’s ladling out a sicko form of justice, in the form of the federal executions he’s determined to ram through until the curtain falls on his presidency at last. Trump’s pardons and executions are of a piece, adding to a legacy that befouls the reputation of the United States. On Wednesday, in deference to Trump’s pardon, D.C. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan formally rendered moot the charges against Flynn. As for justice, in the president’s hands, it’s amounting to acts that many of us — and most of the rest of the world — would call atrocities: federal executions, death by the state.

Source: Los Angeles Times December 11, 2020 11:03 UTC