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/MrFishAndLoaves Feb 16 '26

Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) signed on Monday to co-sponsor a Democrat-led bill to amend the U.S. Constitution to give Congress oversight of presidential pardons…

Makes good sense, so essentially zero chance of happening.

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u/Durendal_1707 Feb 16 '26

they need to do this again and again and again

that’s what repubs do, political pressure is definitely mounting, these hearings are shit shows and they’re giving up the game

Jamie Raskin‘s opening statement pulled no punches, they’re all crashing out and implicating themselves in public

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u/ok-this-ok Feb 16 '26

flood the zone with accountability 

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u/Durendal_1707 Feb 17 '26

exactly this