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  1. …in reply to @OrinKerr
    @OrinKerr There are reasons it might be a junky idea, but it’s an act of mercy, with no personal benefit to the person giving it, to vitiate what did appear to be a poetic sentence in the Chinese judicial style. So it’s at least in the realm of what the pardon power is for.