cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/31454550
The president’s stated intention to pardon Tina Peters, jailed for tampering with election machines in 2020, has set off a legal fight over the extent of Mr. Trump’s pardon powers.
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Mr. Ticktin argued that Mr. Trump has the power to free Ms. Peters under an untested legal theory that the Constitution’s language allowing the president to pardon people for offenses “against the United States” applied not just to federal crimes but also to state-level charges.
“The President of the United States has the power to grant a pardon in any of the states of the United States,” Mr. Ticktin wrote in a letter to Mr. Trump last week that portrayed Ms. Peters as a political prisoner who could be a witness to investigations into the false claims that the election was stolen from Mr. Trump.
Legal scholars and Colorado officials were incredulous. They said the notion that the president could intervene in state courts clashed with the plain language of the Constitution, as well as its fundamental principles of federalism and states’ rights.
Trump being able to pardon state crimes has huge implications for himself and his cronies. He can rig any election he wants at any level and no one can stop him. It would be a wild expansion of power.
All this stuff is so crazy short-sighted.
At what point does the president have so much power and that someone in the line of succession can assassinate everyone up the line and then just pardon themselves since they are not president.
If the Supreme Court signals they does like that anymore, do some more assassinating before they can change it back.
They are not concerned with the “line of succession”, as party leadership dictate the line of succession. Also, they have a long history of assassinating when they deem it necessary, they are pro assassination.
There’s no need to rig elections, friend. It’s been done and pay-for-play for decades.
(in our political system whoever spends the most money wins over 90% of elections; the outliers are handicapped or pressured into compliance in a myriad of ways)
Why cheat when you write the law? That’s silly, only rubes even bother to try; small town mayors and the like.
Also, recall our Supreme Court is for sale.