That’s the fucked up thing about this. The president can order his people to do things illegally in an “official act” and get immunity. Then pardon the people who do his illegal stuff.
The “checks and balances” require republicans to oppose their king. That ain’t happening.
There is actually, a pardon requires a preexisting conviction and no one is ever convicted of judicial contempt only sanctioned because of it.
Someone is probably going to bring up the Biden preemptive pardons which were actually a smart move. Essentially Trump floated the idea of preemptive pardons so the Biden admin tested the waters first any determination that they are legal or illegal would effect them before any subsequent attempt to pardon or convict someone. They very intelligently blocked Trump admin preemptive pardons in doing it.
I mean, yeah. Then promptly pardoned.
That’s the fucked up thing about this. The president can order his people to do things illegally in an “official act” and get immunity. Then pardon the people who do his illegal stuff.
The “checks and balances” require republicans to oppose their king. That ain’t happening.
Contempt is not pardonable. They do the time one way or the other if things work out the way they’re written.
Pardoning contempt at the federal level is a constitutional crisis in and of itself. There’s nothing that explicitly prevents a pardon.
There is actually, a pardon requires a preexisting conviction and no one is ever convicted of judicial contempt only sanctioned because of it.
Someone is probably going to bring up the Biden preemptive pardons which were actually a smart move. Essentially Trump floated the idea of preemptive pardons so the Biden admin tested the waters first any determination that they are legal or illegal would effect them before any subsequent attempt to pardon or convict someone. They very intelligently blocked Trump admin preemptive pardons in doing it.