Another Trump pardon is facing scrutiny, but it’s not for a reason you might think. On Tuesday, Aug. 18, President Donald Trump marked the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment by posthumously pardoning Susan B. Anthony, one of…
Another Trump pardon is facing scrutiny, but it’s not for a reason you might think. On Tuesday, Aug.18, President Donald Trump marked the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment by posthumously pardoning Susan B. Anthony, one of the women’s suffrage movement’s best-known activists. In the 1872 U. S. presidential election, Anthony illegally voted (because she was a woman, as women didn’t get the legal right to vote until 1920), and was fined $100 for her act of resistance. Trump’s announcement on Tuesday wasn’t met with full support, and these tweets about Trump pardoning Susan B. Anthony question whether the suffragette would’ve welcomed a pardon if she were still alive. During a ceremony at the White House on Tuesday celebrating the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote — though it effectively applied only to white women, and left out Black, Indigenous, and other women of color — Trump announced his decision to pardon the voting rights pioneer.
