I’m disappointed in Andy. He apparently can’t read the plain language of the Constitution.
The pardon power given the President is one of the very few constitutional powers with no checks or balances on it. It the President decides to, he can empty the federal prisons tomorrow, and it’s entirely constitutional for him to do so.
The only check on the pardon power is impeachment. One can argue that this plan is unwise, but not that it’s unconstitutional or a violation of “how our system works.”
Not without reading stuff into the Constitution that just isn’t there.
That’s a good point but it seems an abuse of the pardon power when he does it wholesale because he doesn’t agree with a particular law, I doubt that’s what the founders intended for the pardon.
You are right. As as much as I can’t stand Obama, this is one of his powers as President.