Posted on 12/09/2024 3:59:58 AM PST by MtnClimber
Joe Biden just gave his son his Christmas present — a 10-year “get out of jail free” card. And apparently, he’s still caught up in spirit of giving. Politico reports that Joe is considering a raft of pardons for a rogue’s gallery of federal miscreants. It seems our “nobody is above the law” chief executive realizes that those who have undermined our Constitution in service to the Democrat party may need a bit of legal protection from the incoming Trump administration.
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President-Elect Trump ran on a promise to attack government corruption, and he has nominated people to leadership positions to ruthlessly do just that. Just one month after receiving a mandate from the American public, senators from both parties are working to prevent him from fulfilling his promises by blocking his appointees. However, pre-emptive pardons from Biden would shine an uncomfortable light on the obstructionists. Blocking confirmation of Trump’s appointees could be perceived by the public as passivity in addressing the problem.
Within 24 hours of Joe Biden issuing any pre-emptive pardons, President-Elect Trump should address the nation hitting the following points:
- The pre-emptive pardons issued by Joe Biden reveal the extent of the cancer in the federal government that must be excised.
- We cannot remain a self-governed country with a government that actively works against the will of its people.
- Time is short. The corruption must be attacked before it metastasizes any further.
- His leadership appointees are admittedly radical choices. But they were chosen because they will ruthlessly impose the will of the people on the departments they will lead.
- He should then demand an up-or-down vote on his leadership selections so that each senator’s constituents will know whether they stand with the people or the Deep State.
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Sounds like a good plan. The politicians who are obstructing Trump’s cabinet choices should have their Twitter-X posts lit up with people posting that they are siding with the criminals.
Hunter:
We have a few questions about your financial dealings and your relatives....
No, you can’t take the Fifth. You can rot in a cell for contempt for not answering our questions.
Biden and all these ‘RATs and rinos looking for cover really should have read the rules governing presidential pardons- you cannot pardon anyone before they have been charged and convicted of a crime. The pardon must be specific.
In a way, this works out. There are STILL a great MANY charges that can be brought against Hunter, AND, those who took part in J6, Benghazi, Afghanistan and numerous violations of the laws regarding election interference, spying on American citizens, political prosecutions, will be compacent and remain where we can get at them instead of running to countries without extradition treaties.
Biden is filled with the illusion of power and is figuring it is his last time to exert it. Why not just issue a blanket pardon to anyone in his administration? I am sure it would be litigated, but it gives Trump a chance to pardon his choices...
And Gen. Milley is in line for a pardon. I wonder what crimes against humanity that piece of whale s*** has committed. Oh, I think it is well beyond contacting China. I would suggest he is fully a Chinese spy.
Gerald Ford set the precendent with his pardon of Richard Nixon. The blanket pardon has never been tested in court, but the Constitution does not impose a restriction against the practice.
Because the clemency power is a plenary power vested in the Presidency, I would think there is a much better than even chance a blanket pardon would withstand judicial scrutiny. The fact that it is scandalous and wrong notwithstanding.
When you see the ignorant assertion in the opening post, it makes you wonder what those who don’t follow political news and/or have no sense of history wrongly believe.
If Biden does in fact pardon a rogue’s gallery of top officials, does that not confirm the perception that the Democrat Party is a criminal organization worthy of being prosecuted under the RICO laws?
I realize that past execs have jumped the rules, but in this case, it really needs to be brought to the SC.
Title 28, part 2 and Article II, sec. 2 lay those rules out pretty clearly and it states clearly that it applies to those who have been convicted and have served a sentence.
I can think of no clearer examples than the crimes we have been watching in DC, as a reason to test the validity of the pardons given by Biden and those he is considering. And stretching the pardon to cover ALL crimes in the past 10 YEARS absolutely warrants the eyes of the SC.
These are serious and the VICTIM has been the American citizens. There are serious accusations of treason and sedition against the democrat party and its operatives.
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