WASHINGTON-In 1836, slaveholders took Dred Scott, an enslaved person, from Missouri, a slave state, to the territory that became Minnesota. The law governing that territory prohibited slavery.
No buddy, the Constitution is supposed to protect the people from fuck nuggets like Trump.
Only for federal charges. If people are breaking state laws to push his agenda, he cannot pardon them. It’s a little thing, but it’s something.
For now.
No President has ever tried to issue a pardon for state crimes. Given this President and this Supreme Court, I would not be nearly as confident that that rule would hold if push were to come to shove. Especially in a political climate where virtually every institution that we expected to hold their ground has basically caved in to Trump at the first sign of pressure. I could easily see an argument made by this administration in front of this Supreme Court that the Supremacy Clause grants Trump the right to pardon state crimes easily being successful on a 6-3 split.
And I could also see Trump just physically imposing his will by sending people down to the state to physically free whoever is being held with a very similar mindset: “Are you going to stop me? You and what army?”, having anybody who attempts to stop him arrested.
For now.
No President has ever tried to issue a pardon for state crimes. Given this President and this Supreme Court, I would not be nearly as confident that that rule would hold if push were to come to shove. Especially in a political climate where virtually every institution that we expected to hold their ground has basically caved in to Trump at the first sign of pressure. I could easily see an argument made by this administration in front of this Supreme Court that the Supremacy Clause grants Trump the right to pardon state crimes easily being successful on a 6-3 split.
And I could also see Trump just physically imposing his will by sending people down to the state to physically free whoever is being held with a very similar mindset: “Are you going to stop me? You and what army?”, having anybody who attempts to stop him arrested.