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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 6 Nov 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy

      If Trump were thinking ahead, he would already have pre-emptively resigned as President for this reason by now

      2 replies 0 retweets 23 likes
    2. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 6 Nov 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect

      Had Nixon been yet to be charged when Ford pardoned him?

      2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
    3. Jessie Roman  🏳️‍⚧️‏ @FroyoBaggins 6 Nov 2020
      Replying to @Nymphomachy @arthur_affect

      Nope it was a blanket pardon for anything & everything he may or may not have done

      1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
    4. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 6 Nov 2020
      Replying to @FroyoBaggins @arthur_affect

      I actually didn't know this. Would Jimmy Carter have had to abide by that if he'd had an appetite for retribution?

      1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 6 Nov 2020
      Replying to @Nymphomachy @FroyoBaggins

      The usual take is that a presidential pardon is this ultimate expression of the sovereignty of the state itself over the legal system that serves it It's descended from the idea of the sovereignty of the monarch, the King can just say anything he wants is an exception to the law

      1 reply 0 retweets 10 likes
    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 6 Nov 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy @FroyoBaggins

      So, yes, it's established that a pardon can occur at any point after a crime has been committed, and completely stops the state from going through the legal process of reacting to the crime at all -- it's as though the crime didn't happen/was always legal

      1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes
    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 6 Nov 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy @FroyoBaggins

      If you think about it, it's kind of fucked up that this exists at all It's usually defended as a "sanity check" or "compassion check" against actions of the judiciary by keeping the judiciary (like the military) subordinate to a human being who's an elected leader

      1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes
    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 6 Nov 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy @FroyoBaggins

      But, obviously, if the President just didn't care and went ham with it, as Trump went dangerously down far the path of doing, it just makes him a tyrant -- anything is legal if he says it is, he can just make it Purge Night for murdering Democrats

      1 reply 0 retweets 7 likes
    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 6 Nov 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy @FroyoBaggins

      Anyway Gerald Ford's general pardon of Richard Nixon was a wildly unpopular act at the time but everyone agreed it was constitutional and the Democrats were too tired and determined to restore normalcy to make an issue of it

      1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 6 Nov 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy @FroyoBaggins

      It's the most negative example of the President using this power but there's positive ones too, like how Carter used this power to grant general amnesty to all Vietnam draft dodgers as soon as he took office

      1 reply 0 retweets 13 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 6 Nov 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy @FroyoBaggins

      (Well, correction -- murder is a state crime, not a federal law, so Trump couldn't make it Purge Night for murder -- he could make it Purge Night for associated charges of terrorism and assassination though He'd have to loop in Republican state governors to cover all the bases)

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