Pardon who? Hunter Biden case renews ethical debate over use and limits of peculiar presidential power
Pardon who? Hunter Biden case renews ethical debate over use and limits of peculiar presidential power
Despite the controversy surrounding them, presidential pardons can provide a service ā the question is how they are used.
The decision by President Joe Biden to pardon his son, Hunter, despite previously suggesting he would not do so, has reopened debate over the use of the presidential pardon.
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The time to worry about the limits of presidential power was during the supreme court decision on immunity
Now that cats out of the bag, there's no sense in Biden trying to adhere to standards that no longer exist
True. Ain't nobody "reopening" debate except corporate news holes.
Yup. Let him go crazy with those powers. As sour as it tastes, he was given authority to do so by the Federal Supreme Court. If MAGA doesn't like it they can kiss our collective asses and roll that shit back.
They won't, of course, for a couple reasons:
- It IS another form of power
- They know the left will have plenty of people complaining whenever someone on their side decides to use it, while everyone on the Far Right will rejoice.
I suggest those of you whining about this take a step back and look at the bigger issues. One of which happens to be rather rotund, orange, and requires us to stop bickering.
You argument is quite literally "the president should just go ahead and misuse power right now because it was abused before." It's astonishing what you people will let Dems get away with and how little you consider the damage it does to the party's image, chances, conduct and culture.
The damage is already done, why worry about image, chances conduct and culture in a country that's got no future either way
He might as well do what he can while he can, none of it is going to matter for long