The DEMOCRAT Party's abuse of the Pardon Power necessitates a Constitutional Amendment.

[Daylight63]

"WHEN SETTING up the checks and balances in the American constitution, the document’s authors knew they wanted the judiciary to be independent of the legislative and the executive branches. But who, then, would check the judges? One answer was that the president would be able to pardon criminals. This awesome power—to override a decision taken by the courts—should be used rarely, because it is at odds with democracy and judicial independence."

Joe Biden abused a medieval power to pardon his son

The president’s reversal is understandable, humane and wrong

www.economist.com

The sweeping 11 year pardon granted by Nazi Joe to his rich white son for crimes unknown is a dictatorial abuse of power that can only be prevented in the future by amending the Constitution.

LOL. You know Trump won't like that, right? I mean YOU DO KNOW that Trump wants the pardon power. He used it for his own extended family during his last term!

He will fight you if you try to take the pardon power from him. LOLOL.

 

[Libhater]

The abuse of the Presidential Pardon power will punish those who abuse it by political backlash.

There is no need to make an Amendment, just let the loss of political support punish the dirty deeds.

The "Democrat" political brand is dead, Dead, DEAD.

I can't see, yet, what new political party and brand will replace the Democrats, but some other party/brand will rise to replace them.

With the theft of the 2020 election, and the utter insane mismanagement of the nation under puppet Biden/Harris, and now the open corruption and pardons for a criminal family, the Democratic Party committed suicide.

It is enough to simply watch the Democratic Party die.

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The new political party for the left is already here, just under a new name that hasn't as of yet been determined
by the dems to use. My suggestion is to call it the Socialist/Marxist Party. Of course there are any other options
where my pick for them would be to call them the ANTI-AMERICAN party. That pick would include every one
in their party with no exceptions.

 

[Daylight63]

How did Trumpys get so stupid?

The horrors of lead paint, I suspect.

It must be the hate that drives them into crazy land.

Hate just feels good. AND It's SUPER easy.

Our justice system is imperfect. The pardoning power aims to rectify bad decisions, like Obama pardoning people in jail for long stretches for weed.

That's a good use of it, but generally the power of the pardon by POTUS has been so abused over the last MANY administrations that the "good" stuff they do is easily swamped by the craven self-interest pardons that they all go for.

Trump abused it like no other Prez ever.

I'm sorry but we aren't allowed to point to what Trump did when he was last president to suggest that MAGA might be hypocritical at all. Trump is a new man without any baggage to account for. His sheets are nice and bright and white.

He pardoned people who could implicate him in their crimes.

He pardoned his son-in-law's felon dad (who had done time in prison for trying to set up his own brother-in-law)....the same guy he JUST said he wanted to be Ambassador to France.

Go figure.

He pardoned for his benefit.
Biden pardoned his son because Trump planned on torturing him for 4 years .

I like Jimmy Kimmel's bit on this. He said something like: Was it wrong for Biden to pardon Hunter? Yeah. Yeah, it was wrong. But he also knew that the Republicans would NEVER stop attacking him so he pardoned him to get this over with. Would I do the same thing if it were MY son? Damn right I would.

I thought it was startlingly honest to say that. I don't have kids so I wouldn't know, but I think literally EVERONE on the Left sees this as a gross failure on Biden's behalf and probably the WORST possible time to do it. But the Right seem to act like nothing like this has EVER happened in history. Trump himself pardoned extended family members and now wants to make them Ambassadors.

What father would not protect his last remaining son from Trump?

Agreed. I wonder if Biden were younger (ie not quite to the "I don't give a FUCK anymore" age) would he have worried more for his immediate term legacy and not done it. How long was Hunter going to spend in the clink? 5 years? Something like that? And probably at a pretty low danger prison given who he is.

I wonder what it will be like when Donald Trump JR finally loses his shit on the coke he's obviously strung out on much of the time. When DJT Jr goes off the rails I bet it will make the Hunter stories look like a homey olde-timey sock-hop in comparison. YOU KNOW that guy is fucked in the head 6 ways to Sunday! I bet when he implodes it's gonna be fun to watch.

 

[SmarterthanYou]

The FFs studied the collapse of the Roman republic into a dictatorship and wanted to prevent that from happening to ours.

Yes, the 2 term limit is a check on presidential power. No man should have that much power for longer than that, IMO.

I am also for imposing term limits on Congress and the Senate as well.

I would also think that term limits on all elected offices are necessary, due only to the ignorance and apathy of the voting base. In theory, term limits would not be necessary were it not for the incessant idiocy of the voting population wanting consolidated power by democracy

 

[moon]

omg, shut the fuck up. you pollute, troll, and derail every thread in this forum. you are an anti-American idiot who bores us all to tears.

Go away, Gas-Boy, you're done.

 

[Diesel]

Go away, Gas-Boy, you're done.

Fuck you.

 

[Nomad]

WHITE LIB privilege is the bestest kind of privilege.

Shut up, boy.----{Yas'suh Massa trump, suh!!!}

 

[Bigdog]

I would also think that term limits on all elected offices are necessary, due only to the ignorance and apathy of the voting base. In theory, term limits would not be necessary were it not for the incessant idiocy of the voting population wanting consolidated power by democracy

Yes. And the incumbents always have a massive advantage. We need to put a check on them.

And Obama is still trying to run the country.