Posted on 07/13/2023 8:32:22 PM PDT by bitt
As the revelations of potential bribery, bank fraud and tax evasion swirl around Joe Biden and Hunter Biden, both men, who are increasingly appearing together, seem extraordinary calm and unconcerned in public as Joe flashes his signature supercilious and mocking smirk whenever he is asked about the various investigation into his and his son’s activities over the past 12 years. Thanks to pre-emptive presidential pardons, Joe knows that he, Hunter, and the family will never have to answer for any of their alleged egregious criminality.
The Supreme Court has ruled that a president can issue a pardon before charges have been filed. That pardon power:
...extends to every offense known before the law, and may be exercised at any time after its commission, either before legal proceedings are taken or during their pendency, or after conviction and judgement.
Apparently the strategy over the past two and a half years has been for Joe Biden to rely on his sycophants in the Justice Department to stonewall the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate him and to negotiate an absurdly lenient jail-free plea deal with Hunter while the legacy media continued to deliberately ignore or conceal any alleged criminality.
With a court-approved plea deal on the books, the Justice Department could then continue to obfuscate by blithely claiming that they criminally charged Hunter Biden. Thereafter, they could ignore the calls for a full-scale investigation of bribery and bank fraud allegations until after the 2024 election, when Joe would be safely ensconced once again in the Oval Office and pre-emptive pardons could then be issued with no political fallout for Joe or the Democrat party.
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I would also ask them to include an exact definition of “natural born citizen”.
IIRC——A PRESIDENT CANNOT PARDON HIMSELF.
If, as some of us believe possible, JB is not really the President due to continuity of government arrangements,
or if, as some of us believe possible, JB will eventually be declared an illegitimate President due to election fraud,
then any pardon he grants would likely be illegitimate.
I suspect that all of this is an exercise designed to make us think about the issue of pardons. I’m still in favor of the President having the power to pardon anyone, but I’m open to listening to arguments against it. A poor argument is saying that JB will pardon himself and his son. One specific case / one specific bad President does not IMO invalidate the wisdom of granting the President this power.
Amen to that.
If I were in charge, I’d like to require that in order to be President, a person must have been born on US soil and both parents must be citizens at the time of the person’s birth.
Furthermore, due to the ease of world travel in the modern world, I would like a provision that the person must have spent the vast majority of his/her life, particularly his/her formative years on US soil. This would prevent abominations like 0vomit who, regardless of where he may have been born, spent a large percentage of his formative years in Indonesia. I don’t have a strong opinion on the definition of “vast majority”. I think it would be reasonable to allow overseas vacations or even a year abroad to study. But I think it’s a topic worth discussing.
That is one theory, but there has never been a definitive determination on whether a president can pardon himself.
Only if they take away his ice cream.
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