Listening to Margaret Colgate Love, expert in executive clemency under the U.S. Constitution, on Lawrence O'Donnell's show, talking about the astonishing ability of a Donald Trump to absolve his family, his criminal co-conspirators, all of the thugs who committed insurrection at thee Capitol on January 6th, INCLUDING THOSE WHO MURDERED AND TRIED TO MURDER POLICEMEN TRYING TO DEFEND THE ENTIRE FIRST ARTICLE BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT! all I can say is anyone who pretends the "founding fathers" were anything but idiots for writing the thing the way they did is, themselves, either an idiot or a thug.
Of course for it to mean the incredible things that she says it does requires that judges and, even more so "justices" of the Supreme Court say that that's what it means so they are thick as thieves with the worst of the criminal presidents or they're just as thick as they like to pretend they are when it suits their purposes.
We absolutely need that power to be removed when it comes to a. family members, b. members of presidents' administrations, c. their funders and supporters and associates. d. potential funders and supporters and associates in the future. That last group, the amendment should specifically say that if a pardoning president at any time in the future, or their family derives benefit from the one pardoned, that pardon is null and void.
Since most of the active "founders" were lawyers, themselves, they certainly knew they could be letting a criminal president get away with everything up to and including murder with their idiotic loose language. Their reliance on the courts to sort out their lazy language was certainly dumb if not grotesquely irresponsible.
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