cab67
cab67's JournalHow should the constitution be fixed?
When this nightmare ends, the constitution should be amended to make sure this never happens again. But how?
Some needed amendments are obvious. The electoral college has to go. Partisan gerrymandering has to be abolished. Citizens United has to be overturned.
But I think additional amendments are needed:
1. The president's power to pardon should not be absolute. Presidents should not be able to pardon people whose crimes occurred during their administration, for example. I also think presidents should be barred from pardoning previous presidents. The "let's move forward" attitude has done real damage to the Republic.
2. There needs to be clarity on whether a sitting president can be indicted.
3. Presidents should also be unable to interfere with independent counsels.
thoughts?
Yeah, about the Orange One's mental decline -
I think it's pretty obvious to most people that the president's cognitive faculties have been on the downswing. The amount of sense he makes when he talks - never large to begin with - is shrinking. His behavior seems increasingly erratic.
What impact might this have on future attempts to prosecute him, either for crimes committed while in office or before?
I'm serious about this. I wonder if a good lawyer could get a judge to rule him unfit to stand trial.
I'm not talking about an insanity defense. I'm talking about legal professionals deciding that Trump is mentally incapable of defending himself in a court of law.
I recall this being the subject of discussion in the aftermath of Iran-Contra; there were concerns that Reagan's Alzheimer's was advanced enough to render him untriable.
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