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29 minutes ago, Horn Dog said:

 

Sorry if this has been covered, but can someone give a run down of Presidential pardon powers.  I  realize there is uncertainty, but are there any established rules?  I  fully expect Trump to push this to the limit especially as his term winds down, so it would be interesting to hear about the accepted parameters.    Specifically:

1.  I believe a president can issue a pardon before a charge has been filed.  If so, can he pardon himself and his entire cabinet for "any future potential charges" related to his presidency?

2.  Can a president issue a blanket pardon for future charges?  For instance to himself and entire family for any future crimes?

3.  If so, can a president issue a blanket future pardon to an entire group or population?  Wouldn't this mean a President can essentially over ride congressional law making by making a law void?  Ex:  "I hereby pardon all current and future citizens charged with possession, use or distribution of marijuana"

The problem with the pardon questions is many scenarios haven’t been tested because the founders didn’t expect a renegade president like Trump with a complicit Congress.  

In other words, Trump has near unlimited power with the pardons until they’re challenged in the courts. 

Could Trump issue pardons under seal without anyone knowing about it? 

That’s the one I’d like to know but I fear the answer. 

I don’t think Trump could pardon someone for future crimes. 

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13 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

The problem with the pardon questions is many of these scenarios haven’t been tested because the founders didn’t expect a renegade president like Trump with a complicit Congress.  

In other words, Trump has near unlimited power with the pardons until they’re challenged in the courts. 

Could Trump issue pardons under seal without anyone knowing about it? 

 That’s the one I’d like to know but I fear the answer. 

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Lincoln issue pretty much a blanket pardon to pretty much all of the rebels at the end of the Civil War except for the top brass? 

Fuck trump.

1 hour ago, NWBuck said:

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"...and beyond."

Well, there goes the "too infirm to survive in prison" defense that I'm sure Giuliani has chambered.

so when do we find out how fucking fat  obese dotard is this year?

My guess is they'll say he gained 5lbs but grew 2 inches.

 

Our president is now helping a brutal fascist regime succeed in becoming more fascist and likely brutal.

Before someone tells me North Korea isn’t fascist, please tell what fascist boxes they don’t check. 

 


North Korea is legit at the twitters.


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15 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

 

Our president is now helping a brutal fascist regime succeed in becoming more fascist and likely brutal.

Before someone tells me North Korea isn’t fascist, please tell what fascist boxes they don’t check. 

Man, what a far cry from

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Lincoln issue pretty much a blanket pardon to pretty much all of the rebels at the end of the Civil War except for the top brass? 


No - that was Grant.
15 minutes ago, Player said:

 


No - that was Grant.

 

 

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my bad

30 minutes ago, Message Board User said:

 

U.S.A. okay!

Jesus, just imagine if Obama tweeted even something 1/4 that positive about Kim Jong Un.

Republicans would have been shitting out their ears in apoplectic rage seizures.

8 hours ago, TexArcher said:

U.S.A. okay!

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He must’ve missed the whole Benghazi thing. 

 

15 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

He must’ve missed the whole Benghazi thing. 

 

That's a great accusation / confession tweet. 

Why would he have illegitimate victories on the brain? Hmm. 

I like how Kim got the second Summit set up in Hanoi.  

Good way to fuck with private bone spurs. 

I hate the North Korean government but god damn they are schooling the United States right now.

All because our president is a fucking moron.

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38 minutes ago, TornACL said:

That's a great accusation / confession tweet. 

Why would he have illegitimate victories on the brain? Hmm. 

Here we have the POTUS planting seeds that the Democrats cant legitimately win in 2020.  So what happens when it becomes clear they may win?  Call off election?  If the do win? Void the results?  This is how you start down a very scary path (and yes I realize we are way past that point).

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i hadn't realized how much he's rocking that mousy tongue look.  i mean the one in the middle, not the you-nix.

I like how Kim got the second Summit set up in Hanoi.  
Good way to fuck with private bone spurs. 
I hate the North Korean government but god damn they are schooling the United States right now.
All because our president is a fucking moron.


He never achieved the rank of private.

Cadet.

So, will he finally go to Vietnam...or will the White House doctor give him another deferment?

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The defining document of our era is the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision in 2010. The ruling didn’t just legalize anonymous expenditures on political campaigns. It redefined our very idea of what constitutes corruption, limiting it to its most blatant forms: the bribe and the explicit quid pro quo. Justice Anthony Kennedy’s majority opinion crystallized an ever more prevalent ethos of indifference—the collective shrug in response to tax avoidance by the rich and by large corporations, the yawn that now greets the millions in dark money spent by invisible billionaires to influence elections.

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Anthony Kennedy did far more harm to this country with that one terrible opinion than Scalia did his entire life. 

17 minutes ago, JimmyJames said:

Anthony Kennedy did far more harm to this country with that one terrible opinion than Scalia did his entire life. 

As a reminder Scalia voted for it too, but I understand where you're coming from so "yeah."

5 minutes ago, bolverk said:

As a reminder Scalia voted for it too, but I understand where you're coming from so "yeah."

At least Scalia had the decency to die before giving up his seat to Gorsuch...

3 minutes ago, DixonHur said:

At least Scalia had the decency to die before giving up his seat to Gorsuch...

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2 hours ago, TexEx15 said:

Here we have the POTUS planting seeds that the Democrats cant legitimately win in 2020.  So what happens when it becomes clear they may win?  Call off election?  If the do win? Void the results?  This is how you start down a very scary path (and yes I realize we are way past that point).

I think it’s more trying to convince himself, and more importantly his base, that he can somehow flip MI, PA, WI, and AZ back, while keeping Florida.

He must flip three of those first four states I mentioned in order to win, and the math just isn’t there for that to happen. 

Fake news.

We all know there’s a large portion devoted to Ivanka’s Titties.

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2 hours ago, bolverk said:

As a reminder Scalia voted for it too, but I understand where you're coming from so "yeah."

Yeah I know. Which makes him a piece of shit too, although a lesser one in my opinion. 

But he didn’t write it. To me that matters. Scalia was a much better writer than Kennedy. If he had wrote it (1) maybe it wouldn’t have been quite as bad, and/ or (2) at least entertaining to read. My guess is both. 

2 hours ago, Bama Chick said:

Fake news.

We all know there’s a large portion devoted to Ivanka’s Titties.

 

I don’t think it is his brain 

Trump seems to have one agenda today. Post as much anti investigation nonsense as possible. 

2 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

Is it really spying if it's all out in the open?

Isn’t Mueller a life-long Republican too?

14 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

Is it really spying if it's all out in the open?

The most fucked up thing about the Bongino spygate narrative is it neglects the fact the FBI was trying to protect the Trump campaign from Russian infiltration at the time.

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Is Bongino pronounced with a hard g sound like bongo, or a soft g like vagina?

It’s amazing how easily and thoroughly one can display their impotence and insecurity on twitter for the whole world to see.   

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