Posted on 06/04/2018 2:39:06 PM PDT by Texas Fossil
From Article II, Section 2 of the United States Constitution:
“...and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.”
Every court has taken that to mean that the offense must be a federal offense, not just that the offense occurred within the United States.
For example, suppose I live in Maryland. And I am convicted of not paying my state income taxes. The president of the United States cannot pardon me. Only the governor of Maryland can.
Here’s a good article about that:
http://www.legalflip.com/Article.aspx?id=61&pageid=321
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These morons don't realize who Trump is.
Trump is an extremely brilliant, street-smart guy from Queens who is not the least afraid to draw outside the lines if necessary.
To Trump, the law is not a suicide pact, neither is the constitution.
If he has to do it to protect the people he will break the nation apart after the 2020 election.
(I have long held, and often posted, that it would some day come to this and that it could only occur without massive bloodshed under the rule of a brilliant conservative champion...which is exactly what we have in Trump, a man I believe has been called by God to fulfill a mission)
And an absolutely amazing thing would occur if he did it...every last one of the illegal immigrant leaches the dems/Marxists have brought in to ensure they would rule over America instantly become an unbearable, existential burden upon them.
The working people will have moved on and set up new laws to disallow welfare to non-citizens of their new nation... thus the Marxists are stuck with many tens of millions of useless, rowdy, angry, needy people with zero skills and no moral compass.
Unable to any longer force tax payers to subsidize their useless voters their part of the nation will dissolve into total anarchy and become a world pariah...an object lesson even more astonishing than Venezuela or Zimbabwe.
WTF is that fat, deluded butch talking about??? D’Souza served his sentence. The pardon clears D’Souza’s record. Miss Piggy needs a serious comeuppance.
With an order of fries...
Oh please man, that kind of ugly cannot be unseen!
Thanks. The message is clear. When the left brings someone to heel; they don’t want anyone to disrupt their injustice and authority.
These wankers need a dose of their own medicine. They need to be brought to heel and slapped into next week with their license to practice law revoked permanently.
She might also have to overcome Rule 308...
Uhm - good luck with that task, Mr. DA - unless you think it possible to rewrite the U.S. Constitution.
Of course, the NY scumbag will likely attempt to impose state charges, ex-post-facto - which, had he done so in the first place, then no federal pardon would have been possible.
However, I don’t now if it is legally permissible in this case to impose state penalties.
Reminds me of “PAT” from the old 1970’s SNL skit.
Beauty only be skin deep, mon - but ugly, it go to de bone!
I thought for sure this was just ‘hype’. So, I did a google search. Goodness gracious - this is for real!
Good grief, is that even a woman?
“The New York Attorney General is so angry over the presidential pardon of Dinesh that she wants to get rid of double jeopardy to go after him again. “
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmLthd5Bvf4
Sic semper tyrannis
Presidential pardons are for federal charges only.
Yes, good photo of Communist Party Bolsheviks, Indeed.
Demons? Indeed. It is going to be a great effort to exorcise them.
Such a mess. It makes me sick to think of all the damage that nutty judges get away with. It is very rare that they are removed or even punished for their often clearly illegal rulings.
Trump is not just fighting the ComDems, it is the embedded bureaucraps from both parties that see Trump as a threat to their power. Same with Congress.
As the English say, a bloody mess.
Like a slimy snake trail.
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