(from a previous diary of mine):
Amendment 28
"Section 1. The prerogative of the Executive to issue Pardons notwithstanding, no Pardon or Commutation shall be considered valid if issued to reprieve a current or former member of the Executive's Administration, or a current or former offical in his or her political party.
Section 2. Any Pardon shall be valid only insofar as it applies to a specific conviction against an individual obtained in a Court of the United States."
(Note: I changed "President" to "Executive" in Section 1 in order to ramify the States.)
OK, if it's not obvious to "some" why I'm refloating this proposal now, consider this,
from last Saturday's NYT:
Emily Lawrimore, a White House spokeswoman, would not say whether the administration was considering pre-emptive pardons, nor whether it would rule them out.
"We are going to decline to comment on that question since it is regarding internal matters," Ms. Lawrimore wrote in an e-mail message.
Who among us seriously doubts that dozens of criminals and traitors will skate? Maybe hundreds.
And they'll include criminals like this scum. Yeah him. And lots more like him. Some, like Roger Stone, worse.
Now, against the backdrop: a crime syndicate operating out of a cherished US National Monument; the likelihood of mass-pre-pardons, designed to stifle future investigations; the resulting further denigration of our government and legal systems; - doesn't the Failure to Impeach seem like a major misstep blunder idiocy act of either rank cowardice or supine complicity?
Therefore, I don't have any illusions about a Constitutional Amendment like that being able to pass trough this Congress to the States - but note that timing isn't an issue (unless someone, Laylike, dies before being brought to justice): the language applies to all pardons, past and future.
But I think Kucinich, Wexler, or somebody should float it now, to get it out into the open.
Like a marker.
Comments?