Meanwhile, Jerry Brown and other rogue state governors are pardoning illegal aliens in order to stop deportations (thus skirting federal law), but is the New York Times questioning that practice?
But it was 0kay for 0bama to pardon! POS! SOBs!
Puerto Rican terrorists, Marc Rich, Bradley Manning.
All A-Okay for the NYT
Scooter Libby? Hit the panic button!
Do these liberals have any idea how crazed they look to normal Americans?
Trump beat Hillary ,he must pay ,LOL
Marc. Rich. Pardons for sale by BJ Clinton.
“The current president has no reverence for governing norms, and has retained the loyal support of his party’s congressional majorities and voting base while engaging in conspicuously corrupt and unhinged behavior on a daily basis.”
Oh my God. How hilarious is this. Talk about unhinged and not dealing with reality. I get a big kick out of this NYT writer accusing this president of not having reverence for governing norms. Cronyism and total corruption are not part of the Trump agenda Mr. Brigham you moron! He’s not Bubba or The One!
The author does not care about pardon power. The author care about who wields the power.
They sure loved the Presidential pardon when Clinton and Obama pardoned COP MURDERERS and TERRORISTS.
OK,then...in how many ways are we gonna amend the Constitution? Repeal the Second Amendment? Repeal the President’s power to pardon (at least when a Republican is in the White House)?
Meanwhile, NYS’s gov plans on issuing an EO allowing felons still on parole to vote.
Wouldn’t need to use it so much if the libs hadn’t weaponized DOJ.
FUBB. Can you say Marc Rich?
I don’t remember this dipsh!t complaining about this when Bill Clinton was handing out pardons like beer at a keg party.
NOT the NYT. New York magazine. NOT BOb Brigham but Eric Levitz. How did you screw this up so badl?
Why didn’t they do that when obama pardoned all those drug dealers?
I have supported the notion of a check and balance for pardons. Something along the lines of a constitutional amendment that allows for the negation of a pardon if two thirds of the senate dissent. If the person pardoned is not ‘arm’s length’ from the president, or if it smells of corruption or payoff, the Senate (or the House, or either can negate it). Maybe it would not happen often, but the possibility of negation might prevent a ‘deal’ that buys the silence of a convicted crony of a president.
Any federal judge can declare a lawful executive order unconstitutional too, so piss off.
...but will want it back when a democrat gets elected president.
Just pass an ex-post facto law.
Deprive Cohen of constitutional protections.
Because to Democrats’ minds, people around Trump don’t deserve the presumption of innocence.
Sentence first, verdict afterwards. That’s the essence of a political witch hunt.