Monica Lewinsky penned on op-ed Monday calling for a series of constitutional amendments, including age limits for elected officials and a ban on presidential self-pardons. In a piece in Vanity Fai…
Honestly I get why this is, but I disagree slightly. A President should be able to pardon themselves from crimes committed before they were elected to that term. Otherwise you could run into a problem where a corrupt government/administration could jail it’s competitor on bogus charges and then even if elected from a jail cell, that person couldn’t serve.
If they did that to the President and Vice President then the speaker of the house would be made President and that’s a position that can be manipulated with jerrymandering.
Honestly I get why this is, but I disagree slightly. A President should be able to pardon themselves from crimes committed before they were elected to that term. Otherwise you could run into a problem where a corrupt government/administration could jail it’s competitor on bogus charges and then even if elected from a jail cell, that person couldn’t serve.
If they did that to the President and Vice President then the speaker of the house would be made President and that’s a position that can be manipulated with jerrymandering.
The position of a president needs to be held accountable on a higher moral ground then that of ordinary citizens and not the other way around.
If you did shit that would land you in prison, then this needs to be the place where you’re at.