2026-11-01 20:44 UTC
The issue is not the pardon power. The issue is the other branches of government failing to act to restrain the President.
The whole balance of powers works best when all parties act with integrity. If one of the beaches act in bad faith, the other branches must intervene to constrain the party and mitigate the damage.
What has happened is that both Congress and the Judiciary are acquiescing to claims of executive power and we can all see the results.
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@chahn.chris@piefed.social 2026-11-02 00:10
The founders couldn’t imagine a president making literally everyone in their party’s congress a scared little bitch.
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@crispbacon99@lemmy.zip 2026-11-01 23:44
His pardons are as legitimate as his election fraud claims. The rest of the government should be treating it with similar disdain