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Trump's Pardoning of a Loan Shark Derailed a Federal Investigation: Report
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No limit. They just mostly don't do it until they're on the way out of office.
It sounds like an insane practice!
The problem is, it turns out a lot of the US government works on a sort of honor system, where it's assumed whoever is put in office a) has the US's best interest at heart and b) has the trust and support of the people who voted them in, and that they'd swiftly removed by the democratic process upon violating that trust. Unfortunately, the past few years have made it painfully clear that neither of these things are necessarily true.
This isn't the first time presidential pardons have stirred up controversy, though. Another famous case was following the Watergate scandal in the '70s, which led to president Nixon resigning. His vice president, Gerald Ford, became president as a result, and used his power to pardon Nixon of any crimes he may have committed as president. His approval dropped sharply as a result, and it probably cost him his chance at reelection.
Ford was probably right to do so. We held off a few decades on the divisiveness and anger we have today, on seeing whether the laws apply to them as well, on the hatred and outrage. Because of that pardon, we got over it more quickly
Nixon going down would have caused all of his cronies to go down with him.
Instead, as a result of the pardon, Nixons cronies just reinstalled themselves over and over and led to the bullshit we see today.
If all of Nixons cronies would have been permanently dislocated from power, the country would be in a much much better spot today.
Oh I guess there's a major limit, the president can not pardon people with state charges on them which is like 99% of criminals. Their state governors can do that. They can pardon federal crimes only.
But yes it seems like a very dated concept.
Depends on the state. For example the governor in Georgia does not have the authority to pardon anyone. State pardons fall to a pardon board. Also to be eligible for a pardon a minimum sentence must be served.
This is why I’m very excited for the Georgia trial. As long as that’s a conviction…
Trump is fucked. And i am going to be very very petty when the party of “States Rights!” Starts pressuring Georgia to, you know, let him out,