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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGlenn Kirschner: Let's FIGHT CORRUPT PARDONS IN COURT!
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mahatmakanejeeves
(57,319 posts)FBaggins
(26,721 posts)The founders actually considered a co-conspirator exception to the pardon power and overwhelmingly voted it down. Theres no way that the current SCOTUS would see it any other way.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,319 posts)Tune in tomorrow -- sheesh, later today -- for more threads just like this one.
Happy Thanksgiving to you. I'm doing the laundry. The Pilgrims would have wanted that.
It's overcast and drizzling in northern Virginia. The sun was out earlier this morning.
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That didn't take long.
I say we abolish the Supreme Court, and let the Electoral College vote on these cases. We go to great trouble to form this slate every four years, and they only perform a single function (and poorly at that).
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Wednesdays
(17,321 posts)good luck with that with Justice Handmaid and Justice I-like-beer.
uponit7771
(90,304 posts)doc03
(35,300 posts)suspect number 1? I posted yesterday that John Kasich said "Trump has the right to pardon, let's just move on".
I was jumped on right away, people agree with Kasich. Trump is attempting a coup and he isn't out of
the Whitehouse yet, I wouldn't write him off. He is actively sabotaging the next administration. The Republicans
are doing their best to make Biden fail. If he can't undo their damage in the next 4 years the Republicans may be
back in office in again permanently this time. "Lets just move on!"
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)this and his other legal concerns occupy so much of his last days in office that he doesn't have time to further mess up our Democracy.
And then state AGs and foreign countries, like Scotland, can pursue actions against Trump.
I don't think Trump can pardon himself for money laundering crimes committed in Scotland. Can he?
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)investigations into Trump being run by the F.B.I.?
Many of those investigations are important in spite of the fact they don't lead to criminal charges. They can go on for years, even a decade, as is explained by Peter Strzok in his book Compromised.