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re: Roberts/SCOTUS needs to address this Trump shite right now
Posted on 1/1/24 at 9:35 am to udtiger
Posted on 1/1/24 at 9:35 am to udtiger
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What about when a President pardons anyone during a trial? Is that interference?
Clearly.
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That reasoning is stupid.
Again, Trump interfering with a legal prosecution against him is going to be very costly for him, politically.
Assuming it's legal and possible, that doesn't remove Trump from the potential political consequences (impeachment and possibly removal).
I don't see what is stupid about understanding people are going to be pissed and a LOT of GOP moderates have to run again 2 years after 2024.
Even if the DEMs couldn't use that threat to flip the GOP, they can flip the Senate bigly in 2026 if the public is also outrages (which I think enough may be).
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Jonathan Turley a
Many other scholars do not agree with him.
We simply don't know until it gets to the USSC and they rule. Hence why I clearly said:
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that would take a Supreme Court decision
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Posted on 1/1/24 at 11:38 am to SlowFlowPro
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Jonathan Turley a
Many other scholars do not agree with him.
We simply don't know until it gets to the USSC and they rule. Hence why I clearly said:
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that would take a Supreme Court decision
You ignored the text of the Constitution.
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and he shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment
No limitation on who he can pardon. Only a single limitation regarding WHAT he can pardon (as well as only as to offenses against the United States).
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