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Eric Rauchway@rauchway.bsky.social |
For historians, the retrospective legitimation of essentially every criminal act Nixon committed while in office is quite mind-boggling. Ford’s pardon was utterly unnecessary.
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Don Dechert
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Nixon and the Rwgan scandals seem to represent a large formative part of the conservative psyche, which seems like a source of revision and resentment.
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Azure Raphael
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Ford's pardon didn't happen in a vacuum. He did it because someone in party leadership assured him it was the right thing to do. The Party made a calculation that They needed Nixon off the hook more than We needed public accountability for crimes.
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E. Allyn (aka Norton II, Emperor of the United States)
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Ford's pardon was necessary at the time to smooth the way for the people who have dragged the country to this point. *Now* something like Ford's pardon is unnecessary.
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Warhammerchick
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I just saw law prof Josh Chafetz at the bad place ask the same question I've been posing: How does this not enable POTUS to simply kill opponents at will? To say nothing of ordering protesters be shot or indefinitely detained without charges etc. It's all "official"
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Sam G. Howard
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I don’t think conservatives wouldn’t have ended up here eventually, but I do think it was a mistake for liberals to retrospectively cast the pardon as a brave choice for the good of the country and thereby grant it legitimacy (e.g., the Profile in Courage Award).
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Sid Wishes
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The most troubling part is that it's very hard to imagine how this decision can be reversed. It would require a president insisting on being guilty. It's basically bye, bye, USA.
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Meredith Hindley
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I also can’t help think of this decision as the American version of Germany’s 1933 Enabling Act. Go do crimes! Have fun!
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Richard
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Does this ruling affect lackeys and henchmen? If the President orders you to go kill John Roberts is the guy who pulls the trigger still a criminal if the president isn’t?
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Jamie Gump, testing the acceptable limits of hubris
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They avenged Robert Bork.
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North Easton
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really want to piss on his grave today
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