Not if Trump expressly said that he only approved of Democrat politicians being whacked. I seriously believe the house and senate Republicans would shrug and say “that’s a terrible thing. we strongly disapprove <wink>”
Or, an alternate scenario:
Is there anything to prevent a lame duck Trumpo in December 2020, having lost the election, from declaring a pardon from every single federal prison inmate in the state of New York?
Can Bernie Madoff be far behind?
As for Blagojevich, what, no full pardon for him? I guess Trump just couldn’t find it in himself to give a full pardon to a Democrat.
As I just wrote in the Trump Clusterfuck thread:
Okay, I can also appreciate Loach suggestion that it’s a shot at Comey, even if that happens to be factually false (which is irrelevant in Trumpworld).
(Wow, what an active thread! In the time I typed up the above, 8 new posts were added!)
They will strongly furrow their eyebrows.
After all, every dead Democrat makes it more likely Trump gets re-elected, and we all know that anything he does to advance his re-election effort is within his rights as president.
From this clip (SNL: “Days Of Our Impeachment”):
Trump just claimed he is the Chief Law Enforcement Officer of the U.S.…so I guess Barr can just go home now, right?
He is the chief law enforcement officer of the United States. You dispute that?
Just to be clear he’s not pardoning everyone.
Those who go through the regular clemency process and aren’t attached to a celebrity are SOL.
Ummmmmmmm…Yes.
You mean the rumors of Bill Barr being a 250-pound sock puppet are true?
Trump isn’t an evil genius, he is an amoral simpleton. If you want him to do something all you have to do is flatter him or bribe him. Or find a way to make it look like him doing what you want is him sticking it to his enemies (Obama, etc)
Blago flattered him and presented his case as something the democrats and comey would inflict on their political enemies. He played Trump like the buffoon he is and now he is out of prison.
Blago was on Trump’s tv show, and The Blagos pretty much begged Trump. That makes him feel important and Kingly. Probably not the sole reason, but add them in as parts.
Or Rudy Giuliani.
Bernard Kerik and Rudy are really, really tight buddies, going back years. Rudy appointed him corrections commissioner, and then police commissioner, in New York. Then, after Kerik left the police department and went into the private sector, Rudy recommended him for Secretary of Homeland Security (during the Bush administration).
How Rudy and Bernie ever thought he would get past the background check is beyond me.
He didn’t, of course, and not long after the indictments started coming down.
Trump is also the boss of Pompeo. Does that make Trump the Chief Diplomat?
Trump is also the boss of Wilbur Ross. Does that make Trump the Chief of Commerce?
Trump is also the boss of Mark Esper. Does that make Trump the Chief of Defense?
Trump is also the boss of Ben Carson. Does that make Trump the Chief of Housing and Urban Development?
Trump is also the boss of David Bernhardt. Does that make Trump the Chief of the Interior Department?
Etc.
That’s even more things he’s in charge of than Jared Kushner!
Per Yahoo News today:
Trump declares himself ‘chief law enforcement officer’ as he issues numerous pardons
UltrtaVires, you surely must have known better than that.
If all of those were real titles and not just made up to look like stupid joke titles, then yeah, Trump is the Chief of the Interior Department.
He is the head of the entire executive branch. All executive power is constitutionally vested in the President. He has the duty to take care that the laws are faithfully executed. Sounds like he is the Chief Law Enforcement Officer. If the system has seen fit to hire a subordinate to largely carry out the task, it still doesn’t deprive a president of his power over that subordinate.
Maybe the founders got it wrong and one person shouldn’t have all that power. But until the Constitution is amended, the president does.
NSA leaker, Reality Winner is also seeking a pardon or commutation of course she did call Trump a “soulless ginger orangutan” so I guess she is hoping nobody tells him that.
Trump also pardoned Paul Pogue. In what is a huge coincidence and not at all a bribe, Paul Pogue’s family donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to Trump’s campaign.
Is “Chief Law Enforcement Officer” a real title? Seems more like a description to me- and according to this The Executive Branch | The White House , the person fitting that description is the AG.( with no caps in the “title”
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No, “Chief Law Enforcement Officer” is not an official title.
Yes, that should be the attorney general.
Trump is basically declaring himself the attorney general of the US as well as President and whatever else he’s declared himself to be this week.