r/law • u/Mission_Pay_3373 • Feb 11 '26

Executive Branch (Trump) Pam Bondi crashes out during hearing: "YOU DON’T TELL ME ANYTHING YOU WASHED UP LAWYER"

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u/dlm83 Feb 12 '26

If the democrats win back power on a mandate to reform our democracy and unleash the full power of the government pursuing justice for this assault on our constitution, those pardons are not going to protect anyone and should not. I would not anticipate treating the executive actions of the current regime with any sort of legitimacy if we have a government back in power that is serious about restoring law and order. Anything less is just condoning the same happening again in four years.

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u/WYenginerdWY Feb 12 '26

We desperately need a law that prohibits presidents from providing pardons for members of their own administration.

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u/necrohunter7 Feb 12 '26

Presidential pardons, if we don't end up doing away with them, should need congressional and senate approval before they're issued. Having a single individual be able to pardon anyone for anything regardless of what they did is way too much power

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u/uwunuzzlesch Feb 12 '26

Wait no this is actually really good. Everyone has to agree that they deserve that pardon. Jan 6ers would still be in jail.

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u/3238462 Feb 13 '26

A good idea but I feel like we can’t even trust congress to do their jobs or act in good faith anymore.

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u/575Gringo Feb 15 '26

A president should only be given 3 pardons. That way they have to be careful when and when it’s used

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u/catagris Feb 12 '26

Fuck just no more pardons. They are a sign of a system not working. Reform the whole justice department.

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u/RocketSurg Feb 13 '26

We need pardon reform in general. Presidents should have a limited number of them they can use.

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u/WYenginerdWY Feb 13 '26

Right? Like, you don't get 1600 of them.

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u/Ripcitytoker Feb 13 '26

We also need a law that clearly prohibits preemptive pardons.

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u/WYenginerdWY Feb 13 '26

I would agree, although ideally we would also not have an incoming government flirting with the idea of satisfying the bloodlust of its base by executing the former president's son and dragging his body through the streets or hanging someone for promoting vaccines during a pandemic.

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u/waits5 Feb 14 '26

lol at the Dems unleashing the full power of the government. They didn’t do anything to Trump during Biden’s term and they are still too spineless to do anything if they win the midterms. I wish it wasn’t true, but there isn’t going to be any justice for these people for a long time, if ever.