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Anti-slavery heroes Charles Langston and Simeon Bushnell deserve pardons too, President Trump

  • Written by Steven Lubet, Williams Memorial Professor of Law, Northwestern University
Anti-slavery heroes Charles Langston and Simeon Bushnell deserve pardons too, President TrumpThe Oberlin rescuers, with Simeon Bushnell and Charles Langston 9th and 12th from the leftLibrary of Congress

President Donald Trump has exercised the pardon power more aggressively and creatively than most of his predecessors, granting pardons to political supporters such as Joe Arpaio and Dinesh D’Souza, and a posthumous pardon to Jack...

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