Wow, one whole non-plural republican?
I mean, a small crack is detrimental to the whole. One today, maybe not another for a while, but a crack looks to be forming. Not a lot, but it’s something.
Republican Representative Don Bacon of Nebraska
Famous and notable coward Don Bacon grows a single atom of spine, to be surrendered upon his almost immediate retirement.
Fuck him, this is the most he’s spoken out as a representative of one of a handful of districts where he’d benefit from a little bipartisanship. And he waits until the end of his career to do the most milquetoast act of defiance he wanders across.
I’ve met him. He’s a nice guy, when he was in the air force at least he tipped pretty well. But he’s a coward. And that will be his legacy.
The bill was introduced by Rep. Johnny Olszewski (D-MD) last December and would allow for a minimum of 20 House members and five senators to call for congressional review of a pardon, which would lead to a 60-day deadline for Congress to nullify that pardon with a two-thirds majority vote – similar to a veto override.
Listen, I think it’s great that we’re breaking the taboo of pardons being somehow sacrosanct.
But there’s exactly one person I can think of that would get 2/3rd of the Congress off their assess to block clemency against.
Let me know when they have an amendment to end partisan gerrymandering.
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).
Giving Congress power to do stuff is a waste of fucking time. They have had the power to do many things and don’t. Even even is supposedly specifically THEIR power to wield they have let trump use it himself
It’s all symbolic. A constitutional amendment has zero probability of being ratified, and everyone in DC knows it.
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The pardon power is sort of odd to begin with. It gives not just the executive branch, but a single executive the power to completely override the judicial branch. I do feel there should be a committee or set of guidelines in place, regardless of who holds office.
I don’t dislike this but the very nature of being able to reject the pardon creates another partisan issue. Make it exclusive to Trumps pardons.
We’ve seen that executive power needs checks, not just this individual
Yes that’s fair. The bill asks for a 2/3 majority so if Congress can come together and block a pardon that’s fine.
