Wonder what the supreme courts final word will be on

[bluestarone]

Selling pardons? Will it get to the SC?

[sfstaxprep]

1. Drumpf Bought The Court nt

[bluestarone]

2. It could be interesting

[empedocles]

3. We are overdue for some judicious limits on pardons

[bluestarone]

4. So hard to amend the constitution

That's GOOD and BAD!

[empedocles]

5. Within the Constitution itself, there are limits to the 'absolute' pardon power,

the limit being the impeachment clause.

[dware]

6. The Impeachment Clause being that someone that has been impeached,

and convicted cannot be pardoned, but Pissolini can still pardon even though he's been impeached.

[bluestarone]

7. Yea we know how that works huh?

The ones that vote to REMOVE the asshole are the ones that will need a pardon too!

[Ligyron]

8. Impeachment now?

Hmm, I wonder what that would look like or if there’s even time.

[empedocles]

9. My main point, was the pardon power itself, is not necessarily 'absolute'.

SCOTUS does not necessarily have to be bound by a pardon no matter how criminal the circumstances surrounding a particular pardon are.

[ananda]

10. This reminds me of the corrupt popes and church officials...

Who sold indulgences and phony relics.

Remember Chaucer’s The Pardoner’s 5ale?

Dear lords," said he, "in churches, when I preach,
I am at pains that all shall hear my speech,
And ring it out as roundly as a bell,
For I know all by heart the thing I tell.
My theme is always one, and ever was:
'Radix malorum est cupiditas.'