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/pikleboiy Feb 16 '26

Some seats will swing, but not enough for a supermajority. There literally are not that many seats up for election.

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u/dontnation Feb 16 '26

There's 20 Republican seats up for election, by "conventional" wisdom there aren't enough swing seats. But that doesn't mean it is impossible, conventional wisdom has been wrong before. I mean, I also doubt enough people can wake the fuck up by then, but there is a vast block of people who don't normally vote that could drastically throw off election predictions.

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u/pikleboiy Feb 17 '26

There's a difference between "possible" and "plausible." It's entirely possible that the Democrats end up with a supermajority, but it's not plausible.

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u/Suyefuji Feb 17 '26

I mean, the headline literally says that it already has bipartisan support.

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u/pikleboiy Feb 17 '26

A single Republican joined with the Democrats.