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PoliticAverse

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6. "In the past we just assumed all our presidents would be honorable" - actually no...
Thu Dec 24, 2020, 12:00 PM
Dec 2020

In the debating when the Constitution was being written the question of what happens when a dishonorable President issues corrupt pardons and the answer was "impeachment".

See: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2018/07/25/the-pardon-power-and-original-intent/

“There is one security in this case to which gentlemen may not have adverted: if the President be connected, in any suspicious manner, with any person, and there be grounds to believe he will shelter him, the House of Representatives can impeach him; they can remove him if found guilty.”


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