Which is especially funny coming out of Trump's mouth, because that guy wouldn't recognize class if it knocked him over and teabagged him.
I think he has some sense of it, not ours though, more in line with a Russian oligarch's style, I just say gold sharpie.
Draft Dodgers didn't violently assault the halls of Congress, though. Dodging the draft was considered a passive act of protest against the Vietnam War and the country was so divided Carter thought pardons would help to heal. I doubt that any kind of majority of Americans want to see the protestors pardoned.
I'm not saying for one moment that he's likely to try that, or that the courts would uphold it if he did.
I immediately think of his children and some of his advisors, like Stephen Miller and Kayleigh Mackanenenacnenena
Certainly. I mentioned Carter simply as an example of a general pardon. I have an idea I read somewhere about them being issued to former rebels, at least in some circumstances, after the Civil War, too.
He most likely also wanted the elite back from Canada, I have no numbers but I can imagine a higher percentage of educated people leaving the country to dodge the draft.
There was an effort by Lincoln to pardon all ex-Confederates, his successor Johnson managed to grant pardons in exchange for written oaths to never rebel again.
I agree he might try it, IF he thinks there's some gain for him by doing so. From what I've seen, the other pardons were usually paid for in some way, either through large campaign donations or silence about his crimes.
Washington issued a blanket pardon for Insurrection after the Whiskey Rebellion, and Johnson did the same after the Civil War. Both Ford and Carter issued pardons for draft evasion.
I could see him doing more out of spite and to hamper the Biden DoJ.
I think he only did stuff to "own the libs" because that resonated with his base. He got cheered for and that kept him in power. Let's hope he looses interest in pleasing his toy (the mob) once he sees no benfet in it anymore.
The benefit is their adulation and their donations to his various campaign funds, when then vanish into the financial trumposphere.
So people now can't filter out fascists if they want to use that dating service?
Its not settled law. Very few people have ever been impeached/convicted by Congress, 21 including Trump twice. No president has ever tried to pardon himself. If Trump tries to pardon himself or co-conspirators, it will inevitably go before the Supreme Court. They will then look at the "Framer's Intent", what did the people who wrote the Constitution intend for it to mean. Documents like the Federalist Papers, who were written by those same people to promote adoption of the Constitution, provides information about what they meant by the impeachment clause. The English Common Law is also relevant. It was the law of the US before we became a country.
No problem, just add a few things to the profile.
You mean like this?
Snark aside, keep on posting Daniel, I keep reading.Huh, maybe not:
Is the US President Blocked from Issuing Pardons During Impeachment?
Presidential pardon power is famously broad.www.snopes.com
Or, as I understand this, an official removed from their post can't just be reinstalled back into that post.
Or at least it's untested. We'll might find out soon though. Or Trump will just tantrum away refusing to drop any pardons. Stay tuned! ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯
