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b-boy bouiebaisse@jbouie.bsky.social |
oh, you might say, the president can’t issue corrupt pardons. ah. but john roberts says that not only can he issue corrupt pardons, but if he tells his staff they are corrupt in the course of issuing them, that evidence is inadmissible in the event that you could somehow prosecute the corruption
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The Spy who loves you
@spyversuslies.bsky.social
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No one should have the power to pardon. All power corrupts. This is too much power. It has been abused too many times.
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Andy Pearlman
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President: "Judge, are you planning to hear this case?" Judge: "Yes and I..." President to corrupt government employee: "Put this judge with the person whose case he was going to hear."
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The Rocky Horror Picture Shōgun
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Can a pardon be considered tipping?
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Confirmed Professional Agitator
@mumbly-joe.bsky.social
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which raises the question of how you even challenge your imprisonment or whatever as unlawful or corrupt
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@technicalsquirrel.bsky.social
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I wish this is what Sotomayor had written in her dissent, instead of the thing she did write.
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Neil Stenhouse
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Also: look at what he did when there was no explicit signal the law didn’t apply to him. Requested that protestors be shot in the legs, using classified documents as coasters at home, Jan 6, etc etc. How much restraint is he going to show now around stuff he maybe technically isn’t allowed to do?
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Alice
@thealice.bsky.social
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Saving back a couple million dollars and a fancy motor home to convince Clarence Thomas to let me out of the gulag after I undergo state mandated reprogramming
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Sean Eric Fagan
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The POTUS pardon power is absolute -- there are *no* limitations specified in the Constitution. It doesn't even need to be written down anywhere.
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Elon Musk’s Horse Wallet
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STEPHEN A: Skip I want to ADDRESS the balance of SCOTUS and maybe a political rival. [BAYLESS nods] You KNOW I am sensitive to authoritarian power grabs BAYLESS: Absolutely STEPHEN A: BUT!
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Ziti
@zeetee.bsky.social
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AND the president could legally receive a bribe after the fact for doing so
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Alf Hog Imminent
@sincerelikeable.bsky.social
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why would they even be corrupt? they would not be in furtherance of illegal activity because the president is immune. they would just be pardons in support of the president's agenda
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Carl Ballard
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And he got very little push back for pardoning an actual war criminal.
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@roudy1.bsky.social
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the start of the trump dictatorship no accountability
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Professor Furious
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Evergreen: BUT THE NORMS
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