SnausagesinaBlanket@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 3 days agoIs there a mechanism in the USA to undo presidential pardons years later if political corruption has been proven as motivation to give these pardons?message-squaremessage-square53fedilinkarrow-up1125arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up1123arrow-down1message-squareIs there a mechanism in the USA to undo presidential pardons years later if political corruption has been proven as motivation to give these pardons?SnausagesinaBlanket@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 3 days agomessage-square53fedilinkfile-text
This is territory I thought I would never have to think about but something stinks lately to say the least.
minus-squareacockworkorange@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·3 days agoBecause there isn’t a law about it. What we need is a legislative that actually does their fucking job.
minus-squareAngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 days agoThere is a law about it. http://web.archive.org/web/20230520080201/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/15/us/politics/qualified-immunity-supreme-court.html And if the 1982 SCOTUS had been given the full text of the relevant law, then QI would have never happened. It is expressly illegal according to the full text of Section 1983
Because there isn’t a law about it. What we need is a legislative that actually does their fucking job.
There is a law about it.
http://web.archive.org/web/20230520080201/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/15/us/politics/qualified-immunity-supreme-court.html
And if the 1982 SCOTUS had been given the full text of the relevant law, then QI would have never happened. It is expressly illegal according to the full text of Section 1983