▲ 495 ▼ Republican Joins With Dems on Constitutional Amendment to Give Congress Power to Reject Trump Pardons (www.mediaite.com) submitted 5 months ago by Redditsux@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world 48 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago (2 children) Anyway to reverse prior ones like the J6 terrorists? How many crimes have they committed since (besides the crime of attacking our government over being butthurt about losing). permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 months ago Theoretically. You’d likely need to get a constitutional change pushed through to even achieve the headline, since the presidential pardon is granted by the constitution. You’d also need to get a law on the books which would allow retroactive revocation of the previous pardons. That would been to be veto proof, for obvious reasons. permalink fedilink source parent [–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 points 5 months ago (1 child) Find something new to charge them with - interstate travel to commit violence, or conspiracy to commit treason, or something. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone 2 points 5 months ago Or for nothing. Just throw em in a cell and future pardon the people keeping them there for any related offences. Do it offshore so then there's no state crimes - Oh no wait... Do it in Greenland for the luls. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 months ago Theoretically. You’d likely need to get a constitutional change pushed through to even achieve the headline, since the presidential pardon is granted by the constitution. You’d also need to get a law on the books which would allow retroactive revocation of the previous pardons. That would been to be veto proof, for obvious reasons. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 points 5 months ago (1 child) Find something new to charge them with - interstate travel to commit violence, or conspiracy to commit treason, or something. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone 2 points 5 months ago Or for nothing. Just throw em in a cell and future pardon the people keeping them there for any related offences. Do it offshore so then there's no state crimes - Oh no wait... Do it in Greenland for the luls. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone 2 points 5 months ago Or for nothing. Just throw em in a cell and future pardon the people keeping them there for any related offences. Do it offshore so then there's no state crimes - Oh no wait... Do it in Greenland for the luls. permalink fedilink source parent