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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 22 Dec 2020

    Jeet Heer Retweeted Daniel W. Drezner

    Trump's pardons are bad but it's probably a good idea to rethink presidential pardon power -- it's a legacy of monarchism. Constitutional amendment should end & empower the non-partisan commissions to do many more pardons.https://twitter.com/dandrezner/status/1341546678852173824 …

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    “A tabulation by the Harvard Law School professor Jack Goldsmith found that of the 45 pardons or commutations Mr. Trump had granted up until Tuesday, 88 percent aided someone with a personal tie to the president or furthered his political aims.” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/22/us/politics/trump-pardons.html …
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      1. Matt‏ @Emptyset09 22 Dec 2020
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        Agree on both counts but I don't think it will happen.

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      1. Peter‏ @Daeguard 22 Dec 2020
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        and do away with the lame duck sessions completely, people who know they're on their way out the door should not have this kind of power.

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      1. Sensational Gus‏ @sensational_gus 22 Dec 2020
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        Oh, cool, just one of those constitutional amendments then. Should be done by the new year. And republicans love non-partisan commissions maybe doing things republicans don’t like. Like approving pardons proposed by a dem President.

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      1. Richard Badger‏ @merrick42 22 Dec 2020
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        Presidential pardons always bring this to mind for mepic.twitter.com/pW7Cmin10d

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      1. Porkroll Posadist‏ @PPosadist 22 Dec 2020
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        I hope we end up with someone crazy enough to do a general pardon at some point.

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      1. Ranga Krishnan‏ @rangakrishnan1 22 Dec 2020
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        Good idea.

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      2. Kvetch & Release‏ @Rye_Angler 22 Dec 2020
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        It would be simpler to just abolish the presidency.

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      3. Alter Kocker‏ @guess_got 22 Dec 2020
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        We’d long have been better off with a PM.

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      2. Wagner Felix‏ @wdcfelix 22 Dec 2020
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        In Brazil, presidential pardons are not directed to specific persons, but rather to specific conditions: everybody that meets those each year will be pardoned. E.g., in 2012, mothers of young children had their sentenced commuted, among others. It's still occasionally polemic.

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      3. Tommy Ben Bergman‏ @TBApple 22 Dec 2020
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        Carter’s Amnesty for dodging the draft is the close to this framing.

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