SCOTUS sometimes punts on things under the "political question" doctrine, which says "this is a matter of politics, not law". If we're going to have a POTUS and we're going to have a pardon power, then the use of it seems explicitly a political question, DESIGNED to be above lawhttps://twitter.com/FormerlyFormer/status/1342096977316687872 …
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2/ This is not a defense of Trump and his use of the pardon power (I'm thrilled to say that I have remained steadfastly rational ignorant of who he's pardoning - yay me!), or of Obama and his use, or of ... Reagan, Carter, Ford ... It's a Kegan 4 stance: the rules are DESIGNED
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3/ To allow a president to do this. The Founders were not unacquainted with the venal, fallen nature of man - if anything, they were far more cognizant of it than we, in our current marxist belief in the perfectability of the New S̶o̶v̶i̶e̶t̶ American man, are
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4/ So it's safe to say that the Founders thought long and hard about the likelihood that POTUSes would pardon - you know - CRIMINALS I find it amusing that progressives love to quote Blackstone's maxim - It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer
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4/ ... but suddenly develop amnesia when a the ten guilty and one innocent are acquaintances of a Republican.
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