Reply #20: Agreed. [View All]

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Re: pardon limits. Like any amendment to the constitution, care must be taken and precisely your kind of argument must be made and considered. It's good that the amendment process is so difficult.

We need to watch for anything that smells like pardon justification spin. I would help with that. I would like to get an expert's opinion on it.

Last week I talked to a friend who has appeared on CNN as a constitutional expert. I asked him specifically about pardons. John is very soft spoken. He just said, "People wouldn't like it." I asked him if he meant that Chimp would be impeached. He said, "Yeah." This guy is one of my closest friends; I understood that he had little doubts of that outcome. I asked about the Repugs and he just said, "Well, they wouldn't like it either."

But since there's been so much buzz about this I'd now like to hear some more dialog on the topic. Since this is a gravely serious matter it may be better to prepare for the remote possibility than be caught with one's pants down.