President Donald Trump has announced a pardon for former Colorado county clerk Tina Peters, currently serving a nine-year jail sentence for her part in the plot to overturn Joe Biden’s 2020 election win.
However, Trump’s clemency gesture carries no weight, as Peters, 70, was convicted on state charges, not federal charges.
I’m sure they’ll try. The extent of presidential pardon power is pretty cut and dry in the US Constitution, though.
see, that’s the neat thing. the supreme court doesn’t care what the constitution says any more than the president does.
Well, to be more specific, the supreme court majority doesn’t care. There are still members of the court who care very much. I have no idea how they’re coping right now.
No, they only care according to their own bias. The liberal judges have also been onboard with shredding the constitution on behalf of corporations & authoritarianism. They agree more than they disagree.
Oh, how so?
We need some new RBGs.
Early RBG? The female judge who helped apply FMLA to not just women but men also for child related issues? Or end game RBG who rode out a job decades too long and allowed a massive backslide in the very value she helped created early on in her career?
No.
We need people who know when to hang it up and let younger, better people take their place instead of taking the country back 50 years assuaging their stupid egos.
Hell no. She was a racist, pro-corporate narcissist. She can rot in hell.
I really hate how so many people have tried to rehabilitate and protect her image. After a career spent trampling indigenous rights, I refuse to see her record whitewashed.
Institutionalists like to ignore that the supreme court has always been an ideological entity, not some neutral interpretive one.
Dredd Scott might be the most infamous proof of this
so too is birthright citizenship, but the supreme court is going to consider it anyways.
This admin wipes its ass with the constitution. We have functionally been without a constitution for months now IMO.
Oh, I know, but the Supremes have been less likely to support Donald when they can’t hide behind ambiguity.
But at the same time, we’re watching the judiciary effect change and a measure of meaningful opposition and have since January. The courts just move slower than executive orders, and Democrats in Congress don’t do anything whatsoever to stop it, so it feels like there’s no meaningful opposition at all.
But there is.
There are a lot of things that ought to be obvious based in how the Constitution is written – like how Presidents should not be able to harvest funds from foreign officials while in office, or that Presidents should not have license to break the law with impunity. This Supreme Court always finds a way to twist logic to favor the Administration’s view.
Next up is the Birthright Citizenship thing. Let’s see how that “cut and dry” thing goes.
And once this pardon gets to the Supremes, they will of course rule that it makes total sense for Presidents to pardon State crimes, because it’s what the Founders wanted all along. Then there will be 6 shiny new RVs parked in the majority justices’ driveways.
What’s the big deal? They like going to Walmart!
Yep, this SCOTUS is a mixed bag and often doesn’t make any sense. We’ll see what happens.