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Grant Tudor and Justin Florence at @protectdemocracy.org assess the legality of a potential presidential "self-pardon," including the relevant limits on the pardon power.

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A Random Canadian @randomcanadian.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 12, 2024 at 16:34 UTC

The argument that "If presidents are subject to liability for their criminal acts in office they will just pardon themselves, so we should not make them liable for their criminal acts" is at best specious.

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TK @40goingon28.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 12, 2024 at 16:30 UTC

What’s left unsaid in this extremely well-researched and well-written article is that this Supreme Court will happily chuck centuries of precedent to do whatever the fuck it wants

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Matt @mttlvn.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 12, 2024 at 15:26 UTC

My stupidest idea yet is that Biden should deliberately commit some teensy federal infraction, like littering at a national park or something, and then attempt to pardon himself just so it can be litigated. Probably too late now, but it feels like it would have gotten the issue some attention.

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