When the justice system can be terribly unjust, the pardons just make it worse. Imagine sitting in prison, convicted of a crime that you didn't do, and seeing scum like these tfg mobsters, or anyone who actually did commit a crime, getting pardoned.
Except that there are times when pardons are appropriate. Laws are not all just. Leonard Peltier is a case in point. The fallibility of humans and imperfection of laws maybe canтАЩt be completely fixed in this case? Throw out all pardons thus hamstringing a better President isnтАЩt the solution. But I understand the impulse.
It seems to me that a judicial means can be created to serve the same purpose. After having a president who is himself a crook able to unilaterally pardon all his crook friends illustrates the negative possibilities of the current system.
Agreed.
Presidential pardons, of anybody, undermine the credibility of the justice system.
When the justice system can be terribly unjust, the pardons just make it worse. Imagine sitting in prison, convicted of a crime that you didn't do, and seeing scum like these tfg mobsters, or anyone who actually did commit a crime, getting pardoned.
yes!!!! when it's bad... it really malfunctions
Except that there are times when pardons are appropriate. Laws are not all just. Leonard Peltier is a case in point. The fallibility of humans and imperfection of laws maybe canтАЩt be completely fixed in this case? Throw out all pardons thus hamstringing a better President isnтАЩt the solution. But I understand the impulse.
It seems to me that a judicial means can be created to serve the same purpose. After having a president who is himself a crook able to unilaterally pardon all his crook friends illustrates the negative possibilities of the current system.