Whish us why we rely on system a if justice, not persons.The president referred to the military justice system as the “deep state” while championing a Navy SEAL who other SEALs turned in for stabbing a sedated teenager to death. The details are chilling. @maggieNYT @helenecooper @peterbakernyt https://t.co/BrB1prRuHp pic.twitter.com/ZRRJV7kxVa
— David Philipps (@David_Philipps) December 1, 2019
I'm thinking accountability is a bit less amorphous than that. And that if it takes a Constitutional amendment to put limits on the power of the Commander-in-Chief, and the Presidential pardon power, that's not a bad thing.Reporter: Who should be held accountable for [Jamal Khashoggi's murder]?
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) November 22, 2018
Trump: Maybe the world should be held accountable because the world is a vicious place. The world is a very vicious place. (via CBS) pic.twitter.com/M7rv9f6YCk
It's a rather mindblowingly bad provision to give one man that kind of power to allow criminality, as I recently found out, George Mason was warning about exactly the kind of thing that Trump and Bush I did with the pardon power even before they adopted the damned thing. I think more and more finding out what those who rejected the Constitution noticed that made them reject it might be a good idea. The "founders" get all the time, their critics get very little.
ReplyDeleteIt went through the office if a Pardon Attorney, which didn't stop Clinton or Poppy from stirring controversy with it. But Trump proves we need a Board of Pardons (as Texas has, though that experience is not a recommendation), not absolute power in one person.
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