The main topic of conversation since Sunday is Joe Biden’s blanket pardon of his son, Hunter, after telling us all several times over the last year that he wouldn’t. It’s a fitting end to his entire mendacious career of deceit and grift, pardoning himself and his family for the criminal enterprise they’ve run for his 50-plus years in office.
The Right never believed Biden’s claim while the Left swallowed it hook, line and sinker in order to seize the moral high ground. “See, this is what a law-and-order president is like.”
“It’s all about the contrast.” Sure.
Now the MSDNCNNBCBS mouthpieces are clutching their pearls in horror and have no good answers.
You can bet that there are a lot more pardons to come. The Left is already calling for him to issue pre-emptive pardons, in the spirit of what he did for Huntie, to men like Merrick Garland and Alejandro Mayorkas and Anthony Fauci. For what, we can only imagine.
“Persecute.” The irony. Why do they all need pardons, Keith?
The bigger question I have is, how can a president “pardon” a conviction that hasn’t yet been made? If such a “pardon” is legal, can Biden issue a blanket “pardon” for all 40 million illegals in the country going back to 1980 and forward to January 19, 2025?
This site explains the power of pardons.
Article II, Section 2, Clause 1:
The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.
The Constitution establishes the President’s authority to grant clemency, encompassing not only pardons of individuals but several other forms of relief from criminal punishment as well. The power, which has historical roots in early English law, has been recognized by the Supreme Court as quite broad. In the 1886 case Ex parte Garland, the Court referred to the President’s authority to pardon as unlimited except in cases of impeachment, extending to every offence known to the law and able to be exercised either before legal proceedings are taken, or during their pendency, or after conviction and judgment. Much later, the Court wrote that the broad power conferred in the Constitution gives the President plenary authority to ‘forgive’ [a] convicted person in part or entirely, to reduce a penalty in terms of a specified number of years, or to alter it with certain conditions.
So, a president is granted the power to pardon anyone, for anything, at any time, as long as it is a federal matter and is not a matter of impeachment.
Trump will most certainly pardon all J6 prisoners. But here’s the difference: Biden is pardoning Hunter for what are clear violations of established law, including gun charges, use of drugs, possible sexual offenses with underage girls, and acting as bagman for his influence-peddling father. Trump, on the other hand, will pardon J6ers for trumped-up charges and disproportional sentences that clearly abuse the legal code and their rights as American citizens.
I can’t wait until Brandon, the senile corrupt moron, is out of office.