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Originally Posted by denphone
The ability of pardoning someone should be taken out of the hands of presidents and be done by a body that has no political ties and affiliations with those in power.
At the moment we have presidents who will use it for their own corrupted and personal ends.
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Thankfully *we* have no such thing. *They* do, because when they created their republic they gave their president powers that were broadly similar to those exercised by European monarchs of the time.
It’s super-ironic when they take to the streets yelling about ‘No Kings’ when their president is by design much more king-like than those who actually exercise executive authority in the government they gave the boot (i.e. ours, where royal prerogatives of the sort Trump can exercise directly are almost always now exercised by a prime minister who is part of, and stands or falls with, the legislature that he’s a part of.