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Mad_Machine76

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9. In hindsight

Reply to Ms. Toad (Reply #6)

Thu Apr 25, 2024, 11:21 AM

Apr 2024

we shouldn't have been spared it. If we had had some kind of reckoning back then, we might not be dealing with this now. But then again of course, everything old is new again and it didn't stop SCOTUS from overturning precedent with Roe.

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Gorsuch suggesting that a President might pardon himself. Makes one wonder why he brought that up? [View all] JohnSJ Apr 2024 OP

Because it has been... 2naSalit Apr 2024 #1

How could we have a conversation about immunity before settling self-pardon? bucolic_frolic Apr 2024 #2

You can't pardon yourself if you aren't President anymore ColinC Apr 2024 #4

Wouldn't one have to been found guilty Emile Apr 2024 #3

No GregariousGroundhog Apr 2024 #5

But they were guilty, thats why they left the country. Emile Apr 2024 #7

They were innocent until taken to trial and proven guilty GregariousGroundhog Apr 2024 #8

Nope. Ford pardoned Nixon Ms. Toad Apr 2024 #6

In hindsight Mad_Machine76 Apr 2024 #9

It was never chaleneged ScratchCat Apr 2024 #10

A pardon does not require an admission of guilt. Ms. Toad Apr 2024 #11

If Gorsuch believes the president can pardon himself, he's an bigger Redleg Apr 2024 #12