He decided to bet everything on this instead of taking the obvious escape route of resigning during the lame duck period and having President Pence give him a general pardon (Which is... one of those loopholes that we should've closed by now honestly)https://twitter.com/BrianWithCheese/status/1326384373936091136 …
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So *whether or not* someone is guilty or innocent of a crime, the King can just call off the government's prosecution of that crime because he feels like it, because he's the sovereign and the laws are only an expression of his will in the first place
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It is... not at all clear to me that this concept has any real place in a country that's supposed to be a democracy Especially since unlike in a parliamentary democracy we have a strict separation between Congress making the laws and the President enforcing them
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But in the mean time, they are one way to right past injustices our legal system is known to have. Yes, they have to be considered by an ethical leader who is aware of the gravity such power has, but until we fix the fucked up system that created this mess...
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I mean yeah It's just that this relies on the hope that the President is, you know, a good person and not a huge piece of shit
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