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Silent3

(15,909 posts)
Tue Jul 2, 2024, 04:37 PM Jul 2024

Anti-immunity Constitutional amendment as feature of Biden's campaign [View all]

As hard as it is, and perhaps unlikely, to amend the Constitution, I would suggest proposing a Constitutional amendment to undo the disastrous SCOTUS immunity decision, making it completely explicit that the President of the United States must answer to the law.

We should use this proposal, even if unlikely to ever actually be adopted, as a selling point for Biden and a way to point out the danger of Trump.

As part of the same amendment, Presidential pardon power should explicitly reject a President pardoning himself, anyone in their own administration, or even anyone who is deemed to have been committing a crime for the benefit of the President.

It's a hard sell, unfortunately, to get many Americans to wake up to the autocratic threat we're under. Biden making a clear and forceful push to limit his own power could help sell that message.

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