Posted on 03/06/2012 2:30:17 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
I have been wondering if the worst President ever would try something like this. Presidents have the power to pardon...if issued millions of full pardons, could the illegals then register them to vote.
Thoughts?
He can pardon those in the criminal system, but only individually. He’d have to hand sign 2-million pardons. He can’t grant them citizenship, though, so they wouldn’t be able to vote.
SnakeDoc
No!
MSM would “welcome a new day in America.”
He can do anything he wants and if you don’t like it you’re a racist.
Auto sign, the big 0 has it all worked out.
The only way it won’t is if the Corn Lobby does not want it.
With Mexico the mess it is, the state dept will just make everyone south of the Rio grande ‘refugees’, it’s happening one by one already. He’s doing it piecemeal, like the student deferments etc.
I believe pardons are for those convicted of something in court. I suppose those who have been convicted could be pardoned but that doesn’t mean they meet immigration criteria, it only means their criminal records are expunged.
As of now that would not qualify them to vote but it would enamor them to Obie. It would cost him dearly in the general population, at least innitially.
They wouldn’t be able to vote legally but they can vote. Why do you think they don't want any type of ID requirements for voting?
Effectively, he already has. That is why he is campaigning so much in Arizona, Nevada, and Colorado.
If he wanted to cause a huge Constitutional crisis that would blow the lid off of his fake presidency than he could try something like that.
In other words.... Aint’ gonna’ happen.
He could pardon them for the crime(s) they’ve committED (e.g., being in the country illegally). So they couldn’t be prosecuted subsequently for that past crime. However, at the stroke of midnight they would have committed the crime again and be subject to the penalties for that.
It’s happened in CA if they get licenses. We have motor voter here.
Well, Gerald Ford issued a pardon to Nixon who wasn’t in the system.
Ford pardoned Nixon before any conviction.
They don’t need to be pardoned to vote illegally.
SnakeDoc
Sure he can, if no one challenges him on it.
The exception that proves the rule.
SnakeDoc
I should have written, "Sure he can, if no one takes him to court over it." Just challenging him isn't enough. The guy's a lawyer. He understands very well that you can do whatever you want unless someone bothers to actually enforce the law.
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