It is plain that, in less than a year, we have entered the IDGAF period of the second Trump administration. In this period of time, the only relevant question is “How much?”

As in, “How much does it take to spring a convicted international drug trafficker to get out of prison after barely putting a dent in a 45-year sentence, especially while the government is committing war crimes all over the Caribbean under the cover of national anti-drug policy?”

The president’s pardon of former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández is not only morally and legally indefensible, it is pragmatically and politically stupid. There is nothing to be gained from it. At least nothing over the table. It has revolted the entire criminal justice community and has virtually drained what little credibility

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