Hey, Ted Cruz linked to my article! (Appreciate the congrats!)https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1003848754703818752 …
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Replying to @HeerJeet
I love your work and I dislike Ted Cruz so I hate to say it, but I think he's right on this one.
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Replying to @djsziff
Hmm. Would you agree that as a USA Senator, Cruz has a constitutional duty to check over-weening presidential power?
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Replying to @HeerJeet
To be clear, I do not know the right substantive answer on self-pardon question. But it didn't seem at all linked legally or logically to prospective pardon issue Cruz addressed.
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Replying to @djsziff
I think if Cruz takes a narrow view of prospective pardon issue, he should certainly take a much narrower view of president's pardoning themselves & cronies (which is much more obviously corrupt).
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Replying to @HeerJeet
I am not going to argue that Cruz is not a partisan hack. But at this level of generality the legal arguments need not have the same outcome. See, e.g., executive immigration power in DACA vs the travel ban. Or federalism with sanctuary cities. Specifics matter.
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Replying to @djsziff
But Cruz's position is not that legal arguments come to different conclusions. It's that Obama deserved to be checked (with a 50 page law article) but that Trump's assertion of broad power should be ignored. That seems, at the least, contradictory.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
Two points: 1. Obama actually enacted DACA & DAPA. Cruz was not wrong to take him seriously. Not academic. 2. I'd have no quarrel were your objection just his process—his willingness to research. But I read your article as making a substantive claim, which is what I'm focused on.
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Trump's assertion of broad pardon power is not academic either given Mueller investigation is ongoing & he is laying out a political path to thwart it. His cronies are under investigation & he is sending signal that they can expect pardons (as Roger Stone indicated in interview)
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Replying to @HeerJeet
Agreed. He should study and have a view on this question, though perhaps not an instant one. And I wouldn't have disagreed with your article if that were the only point you raised. Anyway, I'll stop. Thanks for engaging. I know Cruz wouldn't, which is a I don't bother.
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