Senators challenge Trump on military pardons

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Sens. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), two members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, are pressing the Department of Justice to answer questions about President Trump's pardons of U.S. soldiers accused of war crimes.

The Democratic senators want to know whether the Justice Department's Office of the Pardon Attorney was involved in the decisions to pardon soldiers accused of unlawful military executions, including fatal shootings of unarmed civilians.

They also asked whether the Justice Department issued any advice or recommendations to the White House and whether it coordinated at all with the Department of Defense, where senior officials were initially opposed to the pardons.

"While the president possesses broad pardon powers, these pardons were issued in the face of strong opposition from senior military officials, who warned that such pardons would undermine the U.S. military justice system and shake faith in our military's commitment to abide by the laws of war," the senators wrote in a letter to Rosalind Sargent-Burns, the acting pardon attorney at the Justice Department.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/senators-challenge-trump-on-military-pardons/ar-BBXnTRA?li=BBnb7Kz

[captain queeg]

1. No republicans?

That’s right, few of those swine ever served.

[rockfordfile]

12. yeah where are those cowards?

[DENVERPOPS]

14. Being former military

Being former military and also a life long republican I am sure Mueller would have objected strenuously......

[dewsgirl]

2. I was hoping when I opened this thread, to see at least one

Republican. Of course that's no surprise.😔

[doc03]

3. Democrats, if John McCain was still here he would be with them. But not his

friend Lindsey he sold his soul to Trump. That little POS will back Trump on anything.

[Iliyah]

4. Where are the Republican Senators?

Oh that's right, they are rolling over for their tummy rub.

Kudos to Senators Leahy and Whitehouse.

[C_U_L8R]

5. Republicans own these war crimes

And should be pummeled with them, often and hard.

[Ohiogal]

6. They want to know

if Donnie consulted with the Dept. of Justice or Dept. of Defense? Like that would have done any good!

Donnie Dump thinks he knows more “than the generals do”, so why should His Highness the Stable Genius consult with anyone before issuing his edicts?

[bucolic_frolic]

7. Trump makes a mockery of everything

[ffr]

8. Proud to be an American

Which is to say, proud to be a DEMOCRAT.

[Ligyron]

9. "Proud to be American, Sir!"

That is what we were expected to say when we saluted officers back in basic at Ft. Sill. Hopefully we will all feel that way again when we get rid of that draft dodging con man disgracing our WH with his orange presence.

[ffr]

11. We will. Time marches closer to tRump's exit.

Your service is appreciated.

[Volaris]

10. None of that will matter to the Judicary.

At least in this case, the Power of the Pardon IS ABSOLUTE. CONSTITUTIONALLY.

now, with the acceptance of that pardon comes an tacit admission of guilt (which sure as hell is why Navy Brass wanted to strip this fucking murderer of his trident pin and rightly so) but the pardon power belongs to the president alone and not his pardon attorney advisors. It doesn't matter what their opinion might have been, one way or another.

[Gore1FL]

13. Remember when they shit bricks when Clinton pardoned Marc Rich?

Pardoning a war-criminal Navy-dishonoring disgrace is cool, though.