2. The pardon power has become Trumpized: turned into an instrument of purely partisan gratification to reward allies, donors and people you want to win over. Trump's hints about pardoning Roger Stone point where it is going.
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3. Trump could, at the end of his presidency, give himself the same absolute pardon Gerald Ford gave to Nixon: complete clemency for everything he did as president. https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1003616210922147841?lang=en …
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4. Some thoughts on Trump's use of pardon power and the conversation we're not having on presidential power:https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/pardon-stone-trump-constitution/ …
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The problem? What if they’re all problemS?
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In a way, that's the grift. Chase the elusive illegal, ignore the horrific legal.
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Famously the founders did not want nor think we’d have parties so the branches are designed to compete with each other/guard their spheres of influence... obviously this was not particularly prescient!
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And what's more disturbing is that the people enabling this view themselves as "Constitutionalists."
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And good Christians..
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It’s everything. Everything is the problem with Trump. It is cascade failure at this point.
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This is the thing. Makes me think often of the way
@mikeduncan talks about it in The Storm Before The Storm - the willingness of Roman politicians to exploit the system's weaknesses was as significant a factor in the Republic's downfall as the outright illegality.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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