A new profusion of headlines erupted after the CNN Town Hall about President Trump’s vow to pardon the January 6 protesters. It’s a timely moment, we say, to revisit the question of what the Framers intended by granting the pardon power to solely the president and allowing him to use it even in cases of treason and insurrection. And even in cases where the president himself might be “conniving,” or motivated by self-interest.