Madison understood immediately the force of Mason’s objection, but he had a response—a response in which he described limitations on presidential power that, to our great misfortune, have for too long been forgotten. Was there a danger in giving the president the power to pardon? “Yes,” replied Madison, but there was a remedy for the danger in the Constitution as drafted.
“There is one security in this case to which gentlemen may not have adverted: if the President be connected, in any suspicious manner, with any person, and there be grounds to believe he will shelter him, the House of Representatives can impeach him; they can remove him if found guilty.”
Impeachment, in other words, can start, not when the President has been formally charged with a crime; he can be impeached if there are “grounds to believe” that he might “shelter,” that is to say, protect with a pardon, someone with whom he is connected “in any suspicious manner.”
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AND IT CAN BE DONE AFTER HIS PRESIDENTIAL TERM.
The House has never impeached, nor has the Senate ever tried, a former President. However, both chambers have previously determined that they retain power to proceed against an executive branch official that has resigned from office. The principal precedent is the 1876 impeachment of Secretary of War William Belknap.Jan 15, [link to crsreports.congress.gov (secure)]
Prove the obviously Fixed 2020 election and that biden was Never elected to be POTUS. That makes every disaster he and obama did to America Illegal and void.
Exactly!
Election rigging for Biden and Obama is not a Naturalized citizen and is not eligible to be President. If we can roll back all the crap that the two of them did to this country, that would be a start. Right now the FRAUD in this past election needs to be uncovered!
I really feel that is the plan.
I find it hard to believe that our House of Representatives doesn't know this... they all suck (except Kennedy)
The deep state does not hire the sharpest tools in the shed, just the ones who does their bidding. Smarts are not a requirement for the deep state.
The old guard all know this. The newer ones are magnificently stupid (Jefferies & Debbie Dingleberry come to mind) only because they never thought she'd lose.
To the contrary, I find it eminently believable that the House of Representatives is abysmally ignorant of the foundations of their office. Which only speaks to my advanced age and dismal witness of my years.
I'm not sure about that anymore. I used to believe that, but they use incompetence to cover their actions/non-actions all the time. I will never give them the grace that maybe they didn't know ever again.
Oh, they are doubtless ignorant, all right. But in their office, incompetence is no excuse. Just like a surgeon that doesn't know medicine has no excuse.
Fake Biden 2020 fake Obama 2008 = removal of Supreme Court Justices Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson (Biden) Sonia Sotomayor/Elena Kagan (Obama)
This citizenry has no idea that the dang Country is a Republic not a democracy and you expect them to understand years of laws?
It's already negated since hiden biden is not the real.president and has no authority anyway.
Indeed, you are correct, however the problem is that his impeachment injects Kamala into the Presidential role which at a minimum brings the same problems or at worse, intensifies the problems Biden is already creating.
I think, Biden stated he would never pardon Hunter because he had a deal that Kamala would pardon him and thus he would be keeping his word. But she lost so the deal fell apart. Thus the statement "The environment has changed" refers to this loss.
To systematically destroy the illusion, the White Hats must periodically inject planned narratives attributed to the enemy! Biden pardoning his son is a well timely planned eye opener for normies! They were made to pick between Kamala and Biden; they went along with Kamala! The minor division created with this event allows White Hats to take advantage of Biden's action! Normies with short term memory and induced animosity against Biden will easily question this pardon just because he was percieved to be Kamala's opponent within their sphere of influence!