In Addition To Cutting Back The Absurd And Criminal Pardon Power, We Need A Constitutional Amendment

to set an age limit of 70 for someone to be sworn in as president and, while we're at it, overturning the Robert's Court's crowning of presidents as criminally immune monarchs.    

Presidents should not be allowed to pardon members of their family or their administration, they should not be able to pardon those who, like the insurrectionists, committed crimes on behalf of (never-mind at the request of) the president or members of their administration.    

I think we also need one that limits the age of those in Congress, though getting one of those through Congress will probably be a lot tougher.   Mitch McConnell,  Chuck Grassley,  Diane Feinstein, . . . it's absurd to have those who are unable due to their extreme senescence make laws that impact the entire country for decades after their deaths.   

Ideally, I'd favor dumping the dangerous system we have now in favor an honest, equality based, one-person-one-vote, no states with more representation than their population warrants system.   Getting rid of the presidential system with a set term for one in which a prime minister could be dumped as even the corrupt British system has is preferable to the one we have now which relies on the fictitious impeachment power or the equally absurd and likely as fictitious 25th Amendment is essential.   

Also, perhaps more doable, would be for the congress and a future president to nullify the Marbury power grab by the Supreme Court - nothing, not even vitally important Constitutional Amendments such as the 14th Amendment is safe from our out of control court.    I'd start by the next Democratic Congress zeroing out the Supreme Court budget except for the salaries of the corrupt "justices" which are, arguably fortunately, protected by the Constitution.   Zero out the budget for that apalling fascist marble palace that the corrupt Court sits in, give them use of a meeting room in the Capitol building or rent them an inexpensive one somewhere in DC.   Deprive them of clerks and other perks.   MAKE THEM SUBJECT TO CRIMINAL PENALTIES FOR ANYTHING THAT HAS THE SLIGHTEST AMOUNT OF CORRUPTION.   As I said last week, if ignorance of the law is no defense then knowledge of the law should compound the criminality of those who commit crimes.   Also term limits, also mandatory retirement at the age of 75.  RBG was entirely too convinced of her irreplaceable status and her entire legacy has been obliterated because of her being too conceited to retire when a Democrat might have replaced her.   THAT, the reality of what she left should be the final determinant of her legacy and legend in history.  

Just a few ideas for a Saturday morning in May.