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> What if the president pardoned literally... everybody Or worse, had someone murder his political opponent and then pardoned him? This sort of thing was unthi
by flowerlad 6y ago
> What if the president pardoned literally... everybody
Or worse, had someone murder his political opponent and then pardoned him? This sort of thing was unthinkable a few years ago, but no longer.
- jerkstate 6y agoWe have had prior presidents commute sentences of people who bombed the senate while the other party had a majority, so your nightmare scenario has basically already happened (but the shoe was on the other foot)
- the_reformation 6y agoYeah who knows what Biden could get up to.
- ghastmaster 6y agoFederalist Paper #69 Specifically mentions this over 200 years ago. https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed69.asp https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed69.asp > ...If a governor of New York, therefore, should be at the head of any such conspiracy, until the design had been ripened into actual hostility he could insure his accomplices and adherents an entire impunity...