Laffy on Nostr: 6/ "A defining feature of the Constitution is the web of checks & balances that arose ...
6/ "A defining feature of the Constitution is the web of checks & balances that arose from the Founders’ fear of autocracy, & yet the pres’s authority to issue pardons or commutations has no check whatsoever. & abuse of a system intended to reward citizens who’d redeemed themselves after a criminal past was rising before Trump came on the scene. Actions that were unethical but not illegal — like George H.W. Bush pardoning actors in Iran-contra scandal he himself might have been involved in..."
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