More Pardons Coming
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@Jolly said in More Pardons Coming:
Do the Dems really want to go down this road?
I think it is stupid and certainly hope not.
Hunter Biden should not have been pardoned. As his father, I can see it, but a president almost has to put country above family.
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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National Review
Should We Ban Pardons Between Election Day and Inauguration Day?
A reader of the Wall Street Journal writes in to the paper, urging the country to adopt a constitutional amendment that would bar pardons and executive orders between Election Day and the inauguration.
I could see the argument that a complete ban on executive orders for more than two months would be too much of an impediment to the president performing his duties. For example, Joe Biden issued an executive order closing federal agencies on January 9 for a national day of mourning for former president Jimmy Carter. Biden signed some executive orders declaring orders of succession in the positions of National Cyber Director, Office of Management and Budget, and Departments of Justice, Treasury, Homeland Security and Agriculture. Not every last-minute action of Biden has been bad, or even all that consequential.
But a constitutional ban on pardons between Election Day and the inauguration sounds pretty appealing right now. (Biden is reportedly considering preemptive pardons to prominent critics of President-elect Trump, individuals who are not currently being either investigated or charged with crimes. This is akin to a get-out-of-jail free card from Monopoly.)
If a president wants to make a particularly controversial pardon, let him do so in a way ensuring either he, or his party’s successor, will face the consequences in the form of the voters’ judgment.
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“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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It very much can, but to maximize it Trump needs to stay above the fray as much as is possible, to be more presidential. I think we've seen more of that this time. I hope it continues. The media TDS machine is already revved up - he just needs to treat it like the noise in the background.
It's a lot to expect and I may be disappointed, but there's always hope.
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Seems pretty easy to have the pardons ready to be issued at 11:59pm on Election Day.
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But agreed amendments are hard and this one would be no one’s priority
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Also seems pretty arbitrary and useless if the president wins reelection
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What I don’t get is how there were any left. Obama and Trump both pardoned non-violent drug offenders.
Plus it’s always been a small number. The reformers fantasy has always been you have all these nice guys in federal prison who’s only crime was they did inhale but it just wasn’t true.
Maybe earlier rounds excluded people dealing? And now this gets the dealers? I really don’t know.
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It could be that Obama was more targeted. I remember there was concern about sentencing disparities between
black drug userscrack cocaine andwhitethe powdery kind, for example. Maybe he target those things. I’m too lazy to look it up.When you shake someone's deep sense of self-worth, leaving a scar in their ego, they will persistently try to diminish you through petty arguments & obsessive captious criticism of your actions, just to soothe the wound.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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@jon-nyc said in More Pardons Coming:
It could be that Obama was more targeted. I remember there was concern about sentencing disparities between
black drug userscrack cocaine andwhitethe powdery kind, for example. Maybe he target those things. I’m too lazy to look it up.It’s likely just new cases that popped up over the last 4 years. 2500 isn’t a lot spread out over 50 states and 4 years.
