Christopher Armitage frequently points out the only workable alternative: prosecute under an analogous state statute instead of federal law. Trump can't pardon people for state violations. He can find ways to pressure a state to issue a pardon, but states can resist those - and make a lot of noise about it, further lowering Trump's popularity.
There are state statutes that cover fraud, deception, and financial crimes, like the laws that cover Trump's New York State conviction. For now, prosecutors will have to prosecute anyone wealthy enough to buy a pardon under state law.
I started my morning reading this post. Trump doesn't care about victims of crime committed by his criminal friends. There is nothing good or honest about Trump. He must hate us.
Nicely written and very illuminating as it went one or two steps further than what I had known about those three nasty, amoral con artists. I wish this could get out to more people and especially to those who haven't been totally brainwashed regarding their dear leader and who still have a sense of morality which may be lying deep in their subconscious that reading this could re-awaken, seeing Trump for whom he really is.
Christopher Armitage frequently points out the only workable alternative: prosecute under an analogous state statute instead of federal law. Trump can't pardon people for state violations. He can find ways to pressure a state to issue a pardon, but states can resist those - and make a lot of noise about it, further lowering Trump's popularity.
There are state statutes that cover fraud, deception, and financial crimes, like the laws that cover Trump's New York State conviction. For now, prosecutors will have to prosecute anyone wealthy enough to buy a pardon under state law.
I started my morning reading this post. Trump doesn't care about victims of crime committed by his criminal friends. There is nothing good or honest about Trump. He must hate us.
There is no end to the corruption. I became more curious about the abuse of pardons, and found an entire Wikipedia page devoted to it. Ugh.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_granted_executive_clemency_in_the_second_Trump_presidency
Nicely written and very illuminating as it went one or two steps further than what I had known about those three nasty, amoral con artists. I wish this could get out to more people and especially to those who haven't been totally brainwashed regarding their dear leader and who still have a sense of morality which may be lying deep in their subconscious that reading this could re-awaken, seeing Trump for whom he really is.
This is sickening.