Could the POTUS pardon offenses not yet committed or can he only pardon with respect to done deeds?
If it were up to me, I would pardon all those in the clink for possession only. And I certainly wouldn’t prosecute those selling it legally in their own state. But I would still want to prosecute the mobsters.
Although this is off the thread, we still suffer from the mobs that arose during prohibition. So I would want to legalize not only pot, but all drugs (think of it as evolution in action), gambling, prostitution. What would the mob do then? They might have to go legit. And pay taxes.
The problem with the president not enforcing laws is that they stay on the books. Future presidents could just start up the enforcement again.
Now the feds are not pursuing people for simple possession. They say they are after greater crimes, but those crimes mostly would not exist if marijuana was legal in the first place.
I think we need better definitions of political jabs. It’s the language, not the factual information that is a problem, right? If he’d have said the following, it would be okay, right?
“In the current political climate, I don’t think Obama could propose anything that would pass in Congress. The opposing party, even if they agreed with him, would feel pressured to vote against him.”
Could the POTUS pardon offenses not yet committed or can he only pardon with respect to done deeds?
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That’s why I put in the part about “each day from here through to the end of his term”. I figured he could pardon With Respect To Every Done Deed as of today, and then do so again tomorrow, and so on every twenty-four hours – each time pardoning away whatever new offenses cropped up since the last time.
21 USC ch.13 (I) B § 811 seems to read, to me, as though the AG has quite a lot of discretion WRT adding and removing items from the Schedules.