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She needs impeached death threats have changed her rulings! She’s not fit to be on the Supreme Corrupt Court!
Give her juice boxes and oranges and send her off to the kiddies soccer fields
have a relaxing evening Treepers.
Thank you, bjorkdream. You, as well.
Such a beautiful spot. I’d love to be there right now.
Promethean Update:
UNTOUCHABLE: The Machine Behind Fauci the Senate Hearing Won’t Expose
Thanks to Anthony Fauci’s insistence that the “Fifth Amendment” prevents him from saying what day it is today . . .
The Constitutional validity of his auto-penned “pardon” (whether or not it had actually been “wet-signed” …) is finally coming into question.
The “pardon” said this: “For any offenses against the United States which he may have committed or taken part in during …”
Whereas Article 2, Section 2, of the US Constitution says this (in part): “and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States.”
The obvious problem that the two English words, “reprieve” and “pardon,” necessarily refer to punishments. In other words, the President can let you out of jail. But, quite logically, he can only do this after(!) you have been lawfully placed in jail!
The “may have” phrase – autopen-inserted by people who knew damned well that they were guilty as hell – is now the Constitutional issue. This phrase attempts to use the “pardon” power to prevent someone from even being accused and then tried, by pre-emptively declaring the party to be innocent … of “whatever, whenever.”
The US Constitution does not grant, nor contemplate, any such power. And well it shouldn’t. Otherwise, on the first day in office, the President could engage his auto-pen to systematically empty every Federal prison of all its inmates, and(!) to declare that they can now do whatever they want, without fear of ever again being arrested. (In fact, it would now be “a violation of their Constitutional Rights” to ever attempt it – even if you just watched them murder somebody.)
The “reprieve and pardon power” quite clearly does not negate the entirety of “Article 3.”
The President, exercising his prerogative to excuse and commute previous offenses, does not possess the power of preventing accusations and prosecutions of wrongdoing – past, present, or future – from occurring at all.
The Constitution does not grant you a “Get Out Of Justice Free!” card.