The Department of Justice is a very insular group of unelected and permanent DC area residents, on average very left wing in their orientation, who have extreme hatred for Trump voters and have been trying to disenfranchise us since he started winning primaries.
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The President's pardon power, unlike the power of unelected DC bureaucrats, is right there in black & white in the Constitution. The biggest reason it's there is to prevent the legal system from being used for seditious coups to overthrow constitutionally elected officials.
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Well, judges are elected or nominated, in the case of T.S. Ellis by Ronald Reagan, jurors are selected randomly, and laws are voted by elected officials. Democracy lies in the tension between sources of legitimacy.
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And right there in the U,S, Constitution spelled out in black and white is the power of the President to override all pseudo-sophisticated "tension" with a pardon.
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As it lays out that the President can be removed from office for Treason, after conviction and impeachment. While the former is discretionary and individual, with limited effects, the latter is bound by rules and procedures and carried collectively with the highest repercussions
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