Do you remember Judge Robert Pratt from the Southern District of Iowa? Probably not. In December 2020, he made headlines by giving an interview with the Associated Press about President Trump's pardons:
"It's not surprising that a criminal like Trump pardons other criminals," senior U.S. District Judge Robert Pratt of the Southern District of Iowa told The Associated Press in a brief phone interview Monday. In a bit of humor, he said: "But apparently to get a pardon, one has to be either a Republican, a convicted child murderer or a turkey."
As I noted at the time, Pratt also made a gratuitous comment about the Emoluments Clauses--an issue that was then-pending before the Supreme Court:
