Not sure if he has the power to do that, or if he could do it but not make it permanent. But if he can, he really should…
There’s lots of good explanations of what the US Constitution allows… but they don’t actually matter!
No matter which branch of government (executive, judicial, or legislature) have the power to “do away with pardons” the same has the power to bring them back.
In parliamentary systems this is called the “supremacy of parliament”.
So even if Biden could issue an executive order to stop pardons then Trump can just executive order them back.
Well, he’s a King, with Divine Right, according to SCOTUS.
Will he use that Right? No, he won’t, because the Democratic Party of the US won’t belittle themselves to fight dirty.
Hence, here we are.
Heaven forbid the Democratic party do something outside the box or unsavory.
Exactly. We’re fucked.
Yup. It would also be nice to have a candidate that was outspoken and fighting for things. The two party system sucks
The problem is we have two parties beholden to greed. The difference is one will throw the peasants bones occasionally, the other are literal narcissistic psychopaths. People unable and incapable of recognizing anyone or anything beyond themselves as anything but useful, or unuseful tools to gaining their goals and desires. That includes family. Other people are literal things to be used, or discarded when undesirable.
Both US parties worship Mammon. One is just slightly more benevolent.
The United States of America was founded on greed. Wealthy white men who hated sharing a single cent of their wealth. Here we are, the logical conclusion.
even if we could he won’t. or some political problem prevents it. see the college debt relief debacle or Manchin.
pardon is a power granted by the constitution.
states are, for the most part, in control of their own election process.
biden can’t do a thing about either. and anything he does on his own, such as via executive order, will just be undone on dictator day.
I would rather he do some presidential actions that are now allowed because of the corrupt supreme court
It’s baked into the US Constitution and the framers intentionally made it difficult to ratify amendments to prevent it from being changed frequently on whims (the Constitution should ideally be able to weather any change in the breeze). He could but he’d need 2/3rds of both House and Senate to vote in favor in order to proceed, so he’d need those to be in session to vote, and then ratification is even messier, I think 2/3 or 3/4 of state legislatures need to vote in favor of ratification. Bunch of hurdles that require not only getting all these groups in a room, but also to have well over a majority vote in favor.
And we all know Marlie Tator Greene would be screaming the whole damn time, so snowball’s chance in hell basically
The Constitution is only as good as the Judiciary of the supreme court allows it to be interpreted so basically it’s the equivalent of toilet paper now.
Laws only mean anything if there’s repercussions to those who wield it and the Supreme Court has said we have a king.
I wouldn’t expect anything from anyone at this point. I expect essentially radio silence until Trump takes over.
Maybe he could just open up a can of whoop-ass?
Article II, Section 2, Clause 1 of the U.S. Constitution, which provides: The President … shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States
In order to change that, would need a Constitutional Amendment, which require ratification from 38 out of 50 states, so, unlikely
He’ll likely pardon Hunter.
It would be irrelivant. Trump will change anything and everything to suit his needs. You can change whatever you want and he’ll just change it back on day one. You know, that one day he made very clear that he was going to be a dictator. That’s the one day set aside to change every single thing he needs to. After that, nothing else matters.
The President can pardon anyone he wants for any federal crime as long as it’s backward looking. He can’t pardon someone for something that will happen in the future.
The President does not have the power to abolish pardons.
He will.
not sure but the first thing I’d recommend changing is the first past the post voting system
The president doesn’t control that. The federal government doesn’t even control that.
That’s a state by state situation.
Correct:
The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators.
US Constitution, Article 1, Section 4
Technically there’s no requirement that any of the citizens of a state be allowed to vote in their state’s elections.
A guy I know argues that a ‘better system’ would that the individual shouldn’t be able to vote in higher tier elections. The individual should be able to vote for their local reps. Local reps vote for the fewer regional/county reps, those vote for state, and state then vote for congressional, who then vote and elect the president.
But, if you think Russian (or enemy nation states) were able to infiltrate and sway the 2024 presidential election across 130 million voters… how easy do you think it’d be to do the same across Congress? Hell, they’ve already infiltrated that.
Alaska and Maine already have ranked choice iirc
I seem to recall that Alaska did have RCV, but then went back to the shitty way.
That’s on the ballot this year. And looks like at this moment the tally is 120k/125k for/against keeping RCV with 75% of the vote counted, so to close to call at the moment.
