Monday, January 20, 2025

Are 'preemptive pardons' constitutional?, cause they sure as fuck ain't Kosher...

 Joe Biden on Monday issued an extraordinary slate of preemptive pardons for prominent critics of President Donald Trump and members of his own family, using executive prerogative as a shield against revenge by his incoming successor while also guaranteeing his closest relatives aren’t subject to future prosecutions.
Clemency for Gen. Mark Milley, Dr. Anthony Fauci and members of Congress who served on the committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, was announced early Monday morning. Later, minutes before Trump was to be inaugurated as the nation’s 47th president, Biden also issued pardons for members of his family: his brothers James and Frank, his sister Valerie, and their respective spouses.
The pardons, coming in the final hours of Biden’s presidency, amount to a stunning flex of presidential power that is unprecedented in recent presidential history. 
 

There is every reason to believe that, at some point, AG Bondi will question the legality of these 'before-the-fact' clemencies, and it will most likely end up in the Supreme Court. Keep your fingers crossed...


10 comments:

  1. Any challenge to these pardons will take years, perhaps decades, to work it's way through our injustice system, eventually making it's way to the SCOTUS....who will almost certainly NOT accept it. It's a political hot potato and they rarely accept such cases.

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    1. Chief Justice Roberts is not a candidate for inclusion in "Profiles in Courage, Volume II." He is, however, a champ at dodge ball.

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  2. Giusepp', like you, I had the same take on preemptive pardons. In short, they're not pardons, they're preemptive immunity, and I have to doubt that they're allowed under law.

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  3. Given the open ended dates for nonspecific crimes, is it possible to get one for future crimes? Asking for a friend.

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  4. But every one of those fuckers that got a pardon can be put on the stand and questioned, but they can't hide behind the 5th Amendment for anything.
    Joe might have just shit in their hats...

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  5. If there was ever anyone in need of a dose of vigilante justice it's Fauci....

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  6. 1915 SCOTUS decision says acceptance of a pardon (and acceptance is required if you want the protection) is an admission of guilty. AFAIK Milley has accepted, Fauci hasn't. Even better, the pardons only extend to Federal crimes, so the states can crucify them if they want.

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  7. Not to mention civil suits for elder abuse, wrongful death, false advertising,...

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  8. It’s pretty plainly stated in the Constitution that pardons are legal. Joetato’s use is also not the first time preemptive pardons have happened either. It sucks, fellahs, but they’re done and we gotta get on with it. My sister is a diehard CNN fan ( I think she’s adopted) and it was blathering on in the background last night while the Donald was signing EO’s. Seems everything Joe did was aboveboard and righteous while everything Don did last night was completely illegal and blantantly false. Lemme show ya how shocked I was….. Either way, here’s the info on Article II, Section 2: https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/article-2/section-2/

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  9. There will be a lot of talk about his huge list of pardons, but Biden had to throw a wide pardon net so he could also get away with pardoning his family. If he was even aware of them, Biden could have cared less about Cheney, the J6 Committee, the thousands of criminals or even Fauci and Milley. All of those pardons were to give him political cover for pardoning the Biden crime family; something else for media heads to talk about. The plan was for Harris to pardon Hunter after she was installed in the Oval Office. And any investigations of the Bidens would have never started, but when Trump won the election it threw a huge monkey wrench in the works. So, on to Plan B.

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