Posted on 12/04/2024 4:07:06 PM PST by RandFan
Joe Biden’s senior aides are conducting a vigorous internal debate over whether to issue preemptive pardons to a range of current and former public officials who could be targeted with President-elect Donald Trump’s return to the White House, according to senior Democrats familiar with the discussions.
Biden’s aides are deeply concerned about a range of current and former officials who could find themselves facing inquiries and even indictments, a sense of alarm which has only accelerated since Trump last weekend announced the appointment of Kash Patel to lead the FBI. Patel has publicly vowed to pursue Trump’s critics.
The White House officials, however, are carefully weighing the extraordinary step of handing out blanket pardons to those who’ve committed no crimes, both because it could suggest impropriety, only fueling Trump’s criticisms, and because those offered preemptive pardons may reject them.
The deliberations touch on pardoning those currently in office, elected and appointed, as well as former officials who’ve angered Trump and his loyalists.
Those who could face exposure include such members of Congress’ Jan. 6 Committee as Sen.-elect Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and former GOP Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming. Trump has previously said Cheney “should go to Jail along with the rest of the Unselect Committee!” Also mentioned by Biden’s aides for a pardon is Anthony Fauci, the former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases who became a lightning rod for criticism from the right during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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oh thank god. I was worried they would catch up with me for that time I walked across a street on red.
So, this is admission that Liz and Fauci committed crimes?
Crazy Liz is the keystone to the fake dossier, FBI, CIA and the DNC
If this isn’t a PUBLIC CONFESSION of the Criminal and Treasonous Acts they committed against the Citizens of the United States, then what is it??
Preemptive pardons are INSANITY, and should be totally ILLEGAL because it essentially places someone ABOVE THE LAW.
Does this mean Lizard Cheney could also shoot someone dead with impunity?
Hey, M_E!
Where’s the H/T, bruh?
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Carefully considered commment on an unrelated thread by This Guy earlier today:
“A Press Release Is Not a Pardon”: Judge Shreds Traitor Joe’s Hunter Move, Calls Him a Liar
12/4/2024, 5:07:05 PM · 48 of 54
one guy in new jersey to crz
Brandon’s people are surely whacking away at their IBM Selectric typewriters, preparing Hunter-style broad pardons for Brandon’s signature, every vulnerable Deep State bad actor employed by or contracted by FedGov/DOJ/FBI/CIA...et cetera...et cetera...
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“ J6ers and their families could still go after her for civil damages.”
I feel a little less furious than I was before reading this about the preemptive pardons Biden (really his handlers) might give to everyone involved in criminal behavior in favor of Democrats. They will never go to jail anyway with the DC court system, but I want their behavior to be exposed.
More precog brilliance:
To: Truthsearcher
Brandon would have no personal incentive to pardon illegal immigrants.
That said, Brandon may not be above signing pardons for any and all well-connected people who have what it takes to make it worth his while.
This is going to get crazy.
53 posted on 12/4/2024, 5:29:38 PM by one guy in new jersey
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Doesn’t one have to be charged or convicted of a crime to be pardoned? If no crime, no charges, then why would a pardon be needed?
Independently arrived great minds moment, Sir.
Surprised he didn’t pardon the whole Democrat administration/deep state. All criminals
Way too obvious.
Satan just texted: “Thanks, but no thanks.”
“Talk about abuse of power.”
Exercising a power created by the US Constitution is per se, not an abuse of power.
Is it slimy? Yes. Abuse of power. No.
That’s fine, pardon them, Trump should expose their crimes to the American People
Show the people the evidence, bring the receipts.
So these people are criminals?
“pardon
1) v. to use the executive power of a Governor or President to forgive a person convicted of a crime, thus removing any remaining penalties or punishments and preventing any new prosecution of the person for the crime for which the pardon was given....The most famous American pardon was the blanket pardon given by President Gerald Ford to ex-President Richard Nixon in the wake of the Watergate scandal and Nixon’s resignation; that pardon closed the door to any future prosecution against Nixon for any crime before the pardon.”
https://dictionary.law.com/Default.aspx?selected=1443
You’re the goods!
I wonder if those pardons will work to protect them from vigilante actions by ordinary Americans who have had enough of their elite crap.
NOW WE ALLL KNOW THEY ARE CRIMINALS!!!
Article II, Section 2, Clause 1:
The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.
The Constitution establishes the President’s authority to grant clemency, encompassing not only pardons of individuals but several other forms of relief from criminal punishment as well. The power, which has historical roots in early English law, has been recognized by the Supreme Court as quite broad.
In the 1886 case Ex parte Garland, the Court referred to the President’s authority to pardon as unlimited except in cases of impeachment, extending to every offence known to the law and able to be exercised either before legal proceedings are taken, or during their pendency, or after conviction and judgment.
Much later, the Court wrote that the broad power conferred in the Constitution gives the President plenary authority to ‘forgive’ [a] convicted person in part or entirely, to reduce a penalty in terms of a specified number of years, or to alter it with certain conditions.
Despite the breadth of the President’s authority under the Pardon Clause, the Constitution’s text provides for at least two limits on the power:
first, clemency may only be granted for Offenses against the United States, meaning that state criminal offenses and federal or state civil claims are not covered.
Second, the President’s clemency authority cannot be used in Cases of impeachment.
In Schick v. Reed, the Court recognized that an exercise of clemency may include any condition which does not otherwise offend the Constitution
https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artII-S2-C1-3-1/ALDE_00013316/
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