'Pardons as favors': Top lawmaker accuses Trump DOJ of rewarding 'corruption and violence'

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One high-ranking House Democrat is now openly asking the Department of Justice (DOJ) about President Donald Trump's approach to granting pardons in his second term, and if the president is only focusing on those who have demonstrated appropriate fealty to him. CBS News reported Friday that Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), who is the ranking member on the powerful House Judiciary Committee, recently sent a letter to DOJ pardon attorney Ed Martin asking him direct questions about the criteria Trump considers for official pardons and commutations. Raskin accused Martin of using his office to 'dole out pardons as favors to the President's loyal political followers and most generous donors, completely ignoring and abandoning the thousands of individual applications for clemency in the normal process.'

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