“Man, that Trump! That is NOT how ya do it! Ya do it on yer last day, and ya get a nahce long blow job from the guy’s wife first!”
Posted on 06/04/2018 7:55:41 AM PDT by Cheerio
The editors of the Washington Post are upset that President Trump pardoned Dinesh D’Souza. They also express concern that Trump might pardon Martha Stewart and Rod Blagojevich.
I have no problem with the D’Souza pardon. The Obama administration threw the book at D’Souza for a relatively small campaign finance law offense that, as I understand it, normally results in a slap on the wrist. It did so, in all likelihood, for the same reason the Post is unhappy with the pardon — D’Souza was a strident and effective critic of the Obama administration and of liberalism in general. According to one report I heard, D’Souza’s anti-Obama film was mentioned in the prosecutor’s file.
The Post frets, as other Trump-haters have, that the D’Souza pardon signals he can overturn the results of the Mueller investigation. But the president is not obliged to refrain from using a power that all presidents have (and use) just because his enemies were able to gin up — out of virtually nothing, it now seems — the Russia collusion investigation.
In any event, everyone understands that Trump can (and might) use the pardon power in connection with Mueller’s investigation. D’Souza’s pardon changes nothing in this regard.
However, I agree with the Post that Trump should think long and hard before pardoning Stewart and/or Blagojevich. Unlike D’Souza, both were convicted by juries. Trump may think the verdicts were unjust — in Stewart’s case, many do. But has he read the trial transcripts to learn what the evidence showed? I doubt it.
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Are you SERIOUS? Juries are the main weapon Slip & Fall lawyers have to make $$$Millions$$$. The slip & fall lawyers pick the least intelligent people to serve on the jury panel. It is even worse with product liability litigation's. We had customers dis-engaging safety guards on our machines which were 40 years old, to slightly increase production rates, then the machine operator mashes up his hand, then they pick a gullible jury panel who have no technical background, play on the sympathy aspect and win a huge award. I have served on jury panel myself, and I would never hire most of them to flip hamburgers.
In the United States, the pardon power for federal crimes is granted to the President of the United States under Article II, Section 2 of the United States Constitution which states that the President "shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment". The U.S. Supreme Court has interpreted this language to include the power to grant pardons, conditional pardons, commutations of sentence, conditional commutations of sentence, remissions of fines and forfeitures, respites, and amnesties.
The President doesn't have to justify or explain his pardons to anyone, including the news media, pundits, editors, reporters, ex-campaign managers, lawyers, ex-perts or democrats in Congress.
If they don't like his pardons, they can run against or vote against him in November, 2020.
Other than THAT, they simply have no call in the matter.
This must be driving the Swamp insane.
How will Mueller react? Will he realize the futility of his political prosecutions or will he double down? My money is on double down.
“undoing political prosecutions”
I guess I’d call it political “persecution”.
“Man, that Trump! That is NOT how ya do it! Ya do it on yer last day, and ya get a nahce long blow job from the guy’s wife first!”
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