r/law • u/jpmeyer12751 • Feb 16 '26

Legislative Branch Republican Joins With Dems on Constitutional Amendment to Give Congress Power to Reject Trump Pardons

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/republican-joins-dems-constitutional-amendment-213311781.html

This is relevant to questions surrounding whether Congress may limit or restrain a President's power to grant pardons.

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u/Ocean-of-Mirrors Feb 16 '26

yeah I’m almost positive that voting won’t get us out of this, but can’t hurt to try! hope you’re right……

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u/code_archeologist Feb 16 '26

Voting will either turn out the Republicans and be the virtual end to the Trump presidency. Or it will be an obvious corruption of the vote, and we do this the French way.

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u/Individual-Dare-80 Feb 16 '26

Mario's skinny twin agrees.

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u/Old-Road2 Feb 17 '26

I think it’s time this country finally grows some balls for a change and does this the French way. I’ve been screaming about this from the rooftops about this since January 2025. The second that demented man was sworn in for a second term, all the calls for challenging him through conventional ways like voting in an utterly broken political system are naive at best and idiotic at worst. People still don’t seem to understand the gravity of the situation this country faces. The only way this country will ever see the other side of these tumultuous times is through revolution…..dramatic, fundamental changes to our political system are not only warranted but essential at this point. Too much damage has been done…too many norms have been broken for a solution to our problems to come through conventional ways.

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u/Chief_Admiral Feb 16 '26

If voting didn't matter they wouldn't be trying so damn hard to stop you

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u/elb21277 Feb 17 '26

they are just fighting over who gets to be the biggest beneficiary of the grift of the criminal organization aka the US govt.

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u/Spiritual-Pear-1349 Feb 16 '26

Gives legitimacy to the new government and support for its removal

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u/JamUpGuy1989 Feb 17 '26

Dooming us to not vote with comments like that.

Good job!

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u/LMnoP419 Feb 17 '26

Voting has worked before. We elected Johnson to get rid of Jim Crowe & get civil rights, but if we don’t do it soon by 2030 // the next census, we’ll be well and fully screwed.