Should, or could Trump pardon himself?

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  1. Patricio Da Silva

    Patricio Da Silva Well-Known Member Donor

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    I say he can't, and if he tries, it will be challenged, reach SCOTUS and under the principle 'no man is above the law' ( which is essentially was self pardon achieves ) they will rule against Trump, if he does it.

    What say you?


    https://www.lawfareblog.com/self-pardons-president-cant-pardon-himself-so-why-do-people-think-he-can

    But, this treatise argues that Trump cannot pardon himself for another, more overlooked, section of the Constitution:

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...5b045a-26dd-11e8-874b-d517e912f125_story.html

    This is not because of some abstract notion of political morality or a vague commitment to the rule of law. It is not because of the maxim, “No one may be the judge in his own case,” because a pardon is an executive action, not a judicial act. Rather, the answer lies in a neglected part of the Constitution: Article II, Section 3, which directs that the president “shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.”
     
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    If he can, then our justice system is a joke and needs to be FIXED. No man is above the law.
     
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    mitchscove Well-Known Member Donor

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    Given that the NY AG said that he planned a fishing expedition to charge Trump with a crime he may or may not have committed, no American should object to Trump pardoning himself. Democrats may object, though. The Constitution doesn't specify limits to his pardon power.
     
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    Whether he can or cannot is a Constitutional issue. If he could pardon himself, it would be a Constitutional issue, not a justice system issue.
     
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    mitchscove Well-Known Member Donor

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    If no man is above the law, why is Biden still free after admitting to extortion? Will there be a special prosecutor named to investigate Biden's claim that he asked Xi to help him become US president?
     
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    Please show us when Biden did this ???? Or is it like the imaginary election fraud ???
     
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    If he can given the extraordinary malisciousness of the left he should at least consider. The left has already shown they couldn't care less about evidence or anything else they just want Trump's head on a pike. Nothing else matters not fairness or decency or anything.

    The same jackasses the griped about water boarding terrorist are just fine with the extorted confession of Gen. Flynn.
     
  8. Patricio Da Silva

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    There's a crap load of evidence. The right just ignores it.
     
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    He can and he should. The only prohibition in the constitution is if he were impeached AND convicted/removed by the Senate. He should pre emptively pardon everyone who had anything to do with his two campaigns and his administration just to take politically motivated federal persecution off the table
     
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    [/QUOTE]

    He shouldn't because there is nothing that requires it. He couldn't because the perk doesn't allow that. No man above the law is only a principle, not a reality. We all know that there are many people who are above the law.
     
  11. Patricio Da Silva

    Patricio Da Silva Well-Known Member Donor

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    The question has a false premise. Your question arises because of your fundamental lack of understanding what extortion is, and is not.

    Do your homework, I cannot do it for you.

    FYI, it was Trump, not Biden, who asked XI to help him in his reelection. Same goes for Zelensky.

    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...favors-to-dictators-bolton-says-idUSKBN23O3B7
     
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    No their us not. The left's willingness to except fiction as evidence in the hunt for their pound if flesh, puts one in mind of the heady days of the Committee of Public Safety, or the equivalent in China seen in the early days of Mao's victory lap.
     
  13. Patricio Da Silva

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    Please provide the link where the NY AG said "planned a fishing expedition...."
     
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    partisan drivel.
     
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    He has two options: self-pardon, or resign and have Pence pardon him. I have been predicting the latter since Trump's Obstruction of Justice became evident (firing of Comey). But I would love to see him attempt the former. If Pence pardons him, that's the end of that. At least in respect to federal crimes. A self-pardon is a different story. I know this partisan Supreme Court will likely uphold it (make a note of my prediction) But I would like to see what excuse they use. They will have to be very inventive to justify declaring Biden and all future Presidents to be above the law.
     
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    NY AG serves notice to Trump on MSNBC she’s coming after him and his family after the election
    https://www.rawstory.com/2020/10/ny...-after-him-and-his-family-after-the-election/

    No crime identified, no crime needed. Just a witch hunt.

    Anyone with half a hair knows what this is about. Trump used the value of his assets in two different ways, one for depreciation against operating income and one to secure a loan. I'm no accountant and I not only know what the witch hunt is about and that it is frivolous.
     
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    No one will prosecute Trump, just like no one prosecuted Hillary.
    Any politician promising you to prosecute Trump is lying, as they know that this door revolves both ways.
     
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    Why would two banks FORGIVE ANYONE $2.8 Billion in debt????
     
  19. Patricio Da Silva

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    No politician is going to prosecute Trump, for one reason. They can't.

    But, SDNY, acting entirely on it's own, will, and they are pursuing him.

    No politician will stop them, nor can they.

    Hillary was not prosecuted because it was determined that they didn't have a strong enough case.

    Whether it's a just state of affairs are not, but the more power you have, the stronger your case must be, because, for a prosecutor, there is far more at stake ( the prosecutor's career, primarily ). You and I might be prosecuted for the server, but someone of Hillary's stature, will not be. That's not law, that's life and it will always be that way because there is no law to force any prosecutor to take a case, nor will there ever be, given that the bulk of laws are written by lawyers.

    However, in Trump's case, I think they will, and they are building it as we speak.
     
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    I didn't find the statement by her that she is planning a fishing expedition, witch hunt, or use of similar such language.

    Please provide it.

    Bank fraud is a serious crime, if it's large enough. It's not frivolous. There probably won't be a long sentence, but there will be a penalty, if found guilty.

    FYI, she didn't say 'after the election' she said 'whether he is reelected or not'.

    Moreover, no language of fishing expedition or witch hunt used, so you have not told the truth.


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    I doubt he's going to let Pence be president for one minute. Moreover, Trump doesn't strike me as someone who would ever resign.
    Moreover, as much of a Sycophant Pence is, I don't see him being president for day for the ostensible purpose of pardoning Trump, there would be an incredible political price to pay for Pence, and he's a seasoned enough politician to know that. He doesn't strike me as someone with the fortitude to fall on a sword for Trump, which is what he'd be doing, politically. No, Trump, if he does anything, will try and pardon himself.

    In fact, I doubt Pence, especially his wife, likes Trump at all. He's a sycophant, of the worst kind.
     
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    Trump is the kind of guy who, if it's not written, and/or if he thinks he can get away with it, he'll do it. For example, instructing his entire staff to not comply with congressional subpoenas. Because the CGs, as a practical matter, have no teeth, he knew he could get away with it.

    No man is above the law. Some try and get way with it, given the apparency of it, but, in truth, no man is above the law and that is the abiding principle of jurisprudence. For 'a man to be above the law' it would have to be codified, and it isn't.
     
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    Did she name a crime? Eric Trump was grilled. Haven't seen the charges.
     
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    A president can pardon anyone they want including themselves.

    There are no restrictions and the no man above 5he law doesn't apply to pardons because the nature of a pardon is exactly to put someone above the law.

    And yes the founders considered the possibility of a self-pa4don, it's in Madison's notes, but they, like so many things, simply didn't address it. The Court would have to assume the intent of the founders was to have no limits on it whatsoever.

    It's one of those thongs they kicked down to the states to figure out and amend the constitution if they want.
     
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    Flynn was waterboarded. LMFAO! Good one.
     

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