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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJust imagine if a President's power to pardon is absolute, as Orange Buffoon says...
even to the point of pardoning himself.
I don't think you'll have to guess what that amounts to.... a dictatorship.
Don't like a particular political rival? Have him killed... you won't even have to be secretive about it... just pardon yourself and even brag about it if you like. And stay in office, too, while you're at it because if you threaten enough people with the same fate they probably won't have the stomach to impeach you.
Just what James Madison would have wanted!
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)Kasparov and Gessen and Frum and Ornstein have been warning us for months.
45 is a would be autocrat.
dalton99a
(81,086 posts)and everything is good
MiddleClass
(888 posts)If not, welcome, constitutional crisis
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)MedusaX
(1,129 posts)As someone pointed out (don't remember who exactly)
Even the pope confesses to another priest...
not to himself.