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…
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.
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.
There’s a lot of radical things Biden could do to better shelter the people of the US and indeed the world from the coming storm but, being Joe Biden, he’s going to do none of them.
I wouldn’t expect anything from anyone at this point. I expect essentially radio silence until Trump takes over.
I would rather he do some presidential actions that are now allowed because of the corrupt supreme court
Joe Biden can do whatever he wants and it doesn’t matter because then Trump will do whatever he wants. He can do away with pardons and then Trump can decree that they exist again. There’s nothing left to stop him. Buckle up.
This is why executive orders are dumb.
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.
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.
No. The president of the United States is authorized by the U.S. Constitution to grant a pardon for a federal crime.
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.
Maybe he could just open up a can of whoop-ass?
even if we could he won’t. or some political problem prevents it. see the college debt relief debacle or Manchin.
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.
