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Monica Lewinsky calls for presidential age limits and ban on self-pardons
theguardian ^ | 11/27/2023 | Ramon Antonio Vargas

Posted on 11/27/2023 7:28:54 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Monica Lewinsky has called for elected officials to be subject to mandatory retirement ages and presidential self-pardons to be banned.

The former Bill Clinton White House intern whose affair with the president eventually set the stage for his 1998 impeachment pushed for those measures in an opinion piece published on Monday by Vanity Fair.

Lewinsky, a political activist and writer, said that her editorial was inspired by recent discussions about whether the US constitution’s 14th amendment barred anyone from holding public office if they engage in an insurrection.

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: age; lewinsky; presidential; selfpardons
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Cigar lady is back.
1 posted on 11/27/2023 7:28:55 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Monica...the HUMAN HUMIDOR.


2 posted on 11/27/2023 7:31:06 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I’d prefer nuclear advice from Amy Carter.


3 posted on 11/27/2023 7:31:55 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: ChicagoConservative27

And why should anyone care what Bill Clinton’s side-piece has to say?


4 posted on 11/27/2023 7:33:26 AM PST by WarlordBK
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To: ChicagoConservative27

2024 is looking like a race between an 81-year-old and a 78-year-old on Election Day, and that sucks.


5 posted on 11/27/2023 7:34:01 AM PST by Trump20162020
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Heck, I’ve always called-up Monica for nuke advice; maybe it’s time to switch over to Amy, too?


6 posted on 11/27/2023 7:34:04 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

. Though it is an untested legal idea, Trump in theory could pardon himself


From the article. It speaks to their fear. Our Founding Fathers left this to the court of election process. Not another law.


7 posted on 11/27/2023 7:34:17 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The pardon power is absolute as I understand it. The Congress cannot change it.

Both of these changes would require constitutional amendments.


8 posted on 11/27/2023 7:34:54 AM PST by cotton1706
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To: ChicagoConservative27

She’s getting into politics? What? Her job as a cigar salesperson isn’t working out?


9 posted on 11/27/2023 7:35:22 AM PST by Bob434
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To: Trump20162020

Okay Monica. I believe that it is you that sucked. Am I right?


10 posted on 11/27/2023 7:35:32 AM PST by dforest
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To: ChicagoConservative27; All

Harmonica Swallowinsky


11 posted on 11/27/2023 7:35:32 AM PST by notdownwidems (Washington D.C. has become the enemy of free people everywhere!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I think she blew her chance to leave a mark.


12 posted on 11/27/2023 7:35:44 AM PST by Migraine
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Let er talk. Kinda reminds everybody about how moral the dems are.


13 posted on 11/27/2023 7:35:45 AM PST by Beowulf9
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Was that a stain on her dress?


14 posted on 11/27/2023 7:35:57 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: Bob434

She was tired of getting stuck with the Bill...


15 posted on 11/27/2023 7:37:24 AM PST by null and void (If you support monsters you will die in the cross fire.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Oh great, more advice from Nillary Clinton’s husband’s fellatrix.


16 posted on 11/27/2023 7:38:22 AM PST by Flatus I. Maximus (You can vote your way into Socialism, but you have to shoot your way out of it.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Has anyone recognized for their understanding of a President pardoning himself ever weighed in on the Constitutional angle of such an act?


17 posted on 11/27/2023 7:41:00 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Proudly Clinging To My Guns And My Religion)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

hey! be nice! she inspired Heels UP Harris’s entire political carrier!

/s


18 posted on 11/27/2023 7:41:31 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

“It’s a skinning of sorts … the shame sticks to you like tar.”

Sort of like the DNA stuck to her blue dress


19 posted on 11/27/2023 7:45:32 AM PST by DeplorablePaul
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To: Trump20162020

“2024 is looking like a race between an 81-year-old and a 78-year-old on Election Day, and that sucks.”

Trump is in good mental and physical health and I like what he stands for and so do a lot of other voters. What’s your concern?

Regarding Monica’s opinion, I think more laws to protect voters from themselves is futile.


20 posted on 11/27/2023 7:45:41 AM PST by cymbeline
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