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Do you believe there should be limits on the President's power to issue pardons for federal crimes?

Do you believe there should be limits on the President's power to issue pardons for federal crimes?

  • Pardons should only be issued at the end of a President's term.

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    65
Under the U.S. Constitution, the President has the power to grant pardons for federal crimes. This poll asks your opinion on whether that power should be limited.
I’ve seen pardons abused by multiple presidents in my lifetime so I lean toward reducing them to symbolic ones, and perhaps giving Congress the power to vote as a group to issue pardons aka 75% vote of Congress to pardon someone.
 
As a rule, even if presidential pardon power is on occasion abused, I do not have a problem with pardon power. I do have a problem with pardon power by way of autopen. I do not feel that autopens should be allowed anywhere in government.
Donald isn’t interested in your opinion and would prefer that you stay in your lane. He likes his autopen and has little patience for some lowly MAGA foot soldier mouthing off about what Donald is or isn’t allowed to do. You’d best keep your head down, you don’t want Donald asking for investigations into your Trump autopen hatred.
 
Maybe he's saying Trump can never be pardoned? He is a convicted felon.

I think it is of note that there is still an appeals process in the system, no?


Or you sort of want to skip over that aspect of the process?

I didn't download the pdf that there will be a link to on that site, but it is there, if anyone wishes to view the details.
 
I think it is of note that there is still an appeals process in the system, no?


Or you sort of want to skip over that aspect of the process?

I didn't download the pdf that there will be a link to on that site, but it is there, if anyone wishes to view the details.
I'm not skipping over anything. Trump can pursue an appeal. He has the $$$ to endlessly appeal his convictions. What would be the basis of his appeal of covering up paying hush money to Daniels? He didn't do it? As of today, he is a convicted felon.
 
Do you have a problem with the president receiving a bribe in exchange for said pardon?
I haven't seen anything credible that indicates that has happened. Have you?
 
I don't think Presidential pardons should be a thing.
At most he should be allowed to order a retrial in the case of obvious miscarriages of justice.
 
Not sure.
Should we tie the hands of future presidents because Trump has poor judgement and lacks restraint?
If you think Trump is the only president has had poor judgment when it comes to pardons you are fooling yourself
 
Under the U.S. Constitution, the President has the power to grant pardons for federal crimes. This poll asks your opinion on whether that power should be limited.
If it were up to me, the pardon power would be gone, never to return.
Most presidents have done shitty pardons. IMO, Trump pardoning J6 criminals is the worst presidential pardon of my lifetime, with Biden pardoning members of his family (especially his son) a close second.

Mark
 
Under the U.S. Constitution, the President has the power to grant pardons for federal crimes. This poll asks your opinion on whether that power should be limited.
The party out of power always has problems with some of the pardons a president of the opposite party grants or issues. The fact that the democrats have had more problems with more of the pardons Trump has issued shouldn’t hamstring any future president. The fact pardons have all of a sudden become a partisan issue isn’t surprising considering today’s modern political era of polarization, the great divide, the super, mega, ultra-high partisanship we’re now living in.
 
If you think Trump is the only president has had poor judgment when it comes to pardons you are fooling yourself
Like I told the last person who drained their brain on this one...Trump is peerless in this regard.
 
New day, news of new pardons! One is a guy convicted of murder. WTH?

You do realize that Biden did the same thing. Expect the people he commuted the sentence killed cops and FBI agents right?

Or is that different somehow.
 
Like I told the last person who drained their brain on this one...Trump is peerless in this regard.
An opinion not supported by facts. Not that that has ever stopped you before.
 
See post 115.
Ahh so you do think it is different.

But please explain how trump commuting the sentence of a person convicted of murdering someone is so much worse then Biden commuting the sentence of two people who killed a police officer and another person who killed 2 fbi agents.
I am sure you have something right?
Can’t wait to hear it.
 
Ahh so you do think it is different.

But please explain how trump commuting the sentence of a person convicted of murdering someone is so much worse then Biden commuting the sentence of two people who killed a police officer and another person who killed 2 fbi agents.
I am sure you have something right?
Can’t wait to hear it.
Stop looking at one branch of a tree and step back a take a look at the forest.

 
So we are just going by number now.
Seeing as Biden gave clemency to over 8000 people it seems Trump has a way to go. But who knows. He may get there.
None of those people were in prison.
 
Stop looking at one branch of a tree and step back a take a look at the forest.

Yeah I think it is you have your vision clouded by your hate from trump.
The fact that you can’t really support your claims is pretty good evidence of that.

First you say it is so much worse because he pardoned someone convicted of murder. Oops Biden did that multiple times.

Then you talk about the numbers. Oops Trump is no where even close to matching numbers from multiple other presidents.

Seems like you keep trying but are not getting too far.
 
Yeah I think it is you have your vision clouded by your hate from trump.
The fact that you can’t really support your claims is pretty good evidence of that.

First you say it is so much worse because he pardoned someone convicted of murder. Oops Biden did that multiple times.

Then you talk about the numbers. Oops Trump is no where even close to matching numbers from multiple other presidents.

Seems like you keep trying but are not getting too far.
What claim am I not supporting? Be specific and use quotes from my comments to back up your assertion.
 
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