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Trump "revokes" pardons made by President Joe Biden
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He couldn't tell you what he had for breakfast.
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Your brackets filled out?
Who ya got in the final four?
Glad ya asked! It's moving right along! As is MANYother states! Like Ive said all aong, the biggest sting opperation in the history of the world! He caught them ALL! BQQM! MARCH MADNESS! And the games haven't even started yet!
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Now this gem is worth saving to be quoted in future!
But there is absolutely nothing of any consequence in this latest distraction from Trump
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I'm sure you can find and post those images...
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Duplicate
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Sorry, not interested. Please withdraw my name from the nomination pool.
HisArpy
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Since when is the US controlled by the UN and the US Constitution overruled by UN proclamations?
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As they say, the proof is in the pudding. So far dessert has been delicious. You should try some instead of the swill you keep vomiting back up.
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Well lookee here... someone finally figured out how to googie woogie.
Now if only we could get you to stop demanding other people to include links along with their posts...
Well if you "figured" out google, you wouldn't look half as stupid, but the downside is I'd have one less poster here to laugh at....
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That's juvenile bullshit. You're describing Joe Biden.
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You're an idiot, racist and an old white guy....looking to turn the clock back 40-60 years or so, when white guys kinda ruled the USA.
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Nonsense, my friend. Even if the Derpmeister could somehow master Google searches, we'd still have an inordinate amount of laughs at his expense over his tortured 'well ackshually' re-interpretations.
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Trump and all of us know what he had for breakfast, fast food.
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The courts will have to determine whether an official document that can only be signed by the President has, in fact, been personally signed by him—or instead by someone or something else, such as an Autopen.
Notably, under the Constitution, only the President has the authority to sign a legislative bill before it becomes law. Article I, Section 7, Clause 2 states:
The text explicitly says "he shall sign it." It does not say an Autopen, a proxy, or any other person. The language of the founding generation strongly suggests that a bill only becomes law after the President himself has signed it. By extension, it can be argued that other official documents requiring the President’s signature must also be personally signed to be valid.
This is not a mere technicality, it is the only way to ensure that the President has exercised his constitutional duty with knowledge and intent. If an underling can sign in his place, whether by hand or by machine, it raises serious concerns about the usurpation of presidential authority and the integrity of the lawmaking process.
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There is no challenge that can or will be made to the courts on this.
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Trump’s Latest Word Salad Isn’t Just Wrong. It’s Insane
The president’s attempts to undo Joe Biden’s pardons lean on the autopen and crank theories of the Constitution.
Teaching Constitutional Law in the Pacific Northwest over three decades, I made the acquaintance of many buckaroos who would wander down from the hills and explain to me that the Fourteenth Amendment isn’t a real Amendment; that Federal Reserve notes aren’t real money; and that federal courts aren’t real courts (because in most courtrooms there’s a fringe on the American flag).
These are soul-numbing—and, in their way, heart-rending—displays of gullibility by interlocutors, often sincere and intelligent, who choose to live in a headspace where the law is Harry Potter-style magic rather than the complex social and political institutions in which lawyers and judges actually work. What is even more soul-numbing—and significantly less intelligent—is seeing this level of dysfunction displayed by the chief executive.
Yesterday, mostly out of the blue, the American people were treated to just this sight. Donald Trump suddenly decided that federal pardons aren’t real pardons because a presidential signature wasn’t an actual signature.
Here is Trump’s post on his proprietary social medium site:
The ‘Pardons’ that Sleepy Joe Biden gave to the Unselect committee of Political Thugs, and many others, are hereby declared VOID, VACANT, AND OF NO FURTHER FORCE OR EFFECT, because of the fact that they were done by Autopen. In other words, Joe Biden did not sign them but, more importantly, he did not know anything about them!
Thank you, Mr. President, but, well . . . no.
Here is a small sampler of what is wrong with Trump’s latest paroxysm. First, Trump doesn’t know that Biden used an autopen. The “report” by the magicians at the Heritage Foundation’s “Oversight Project” is based on the fact that signatures on online documents signed by Biden bear identical signatures. This, of course, must mean that the originals were signed by Autopen.
Except, um, no: even before Trump’s tantrum, Snopes.com had explained that this “evidence” was not evidence at all:
the National Archives, which runs the Federal Register, said in an emailed statement that official documents published in the Federal Register use a copy of the president’s signature that “comes from one graphic file.” “At the beginning of each administration, the White House sends a sample of the President’s signature to the Office of the Federal Register, which uses it to create the graphic image for all Presidential Documents published in the Federal Register,” communications staff at the National Archives wrote. As the Federal Register’s digitized documents do not represent what the signature looks like on the original documents, the Oversight Project’s claim lacks credibility.
Beyond that, there is no principle of law invalidating a pardon—or any presidential document—because an autopen signs it. The autopen, invented by Thomas Jefferson (for those scoring at home, our third President), is as American as the Thanksgiving turkey pardon. By law, a presidential autopen signature on a document is as valid as one written by hand. A formal opinion from the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel delivered in July 2005, “Whether the President May Sign a Bill by Directing That His Signature Be Affixed to It,” clarifies this. After an extensive review of the history of presidential signatures and the meaning of the term in the context of the Constitution, the opinion states, “We conclude that the President need not personally perform the physical act of affixing his signature to a bill to sign it within the meaning of Article I, Section 7.”
Here is a critical fact broken down into particles small enough to be digested even by the Oversight Project: Even if you think the OLC opinion is wrong, it is still the law. You don’t get to begin invalidating documents by pretending it does not exist.
The president’s attempts to undo Joe Biden’s pardons lean on the autopen and crank theories of the Constitution.
Teaching Constitutional Law in the Pacific Northwest over three decades, I made the acquaintance of many buckaroos who would wander down from the hills and explain to me that the Fourteenth Amendment isn’t a real Amendment; that Federal Reserve notes aren’t real money; and that federal courts aren’t real courts (because in most courtrooms there’s a fringe on the American flag).
These are soul-numbing—and, in their way, heart-rending—displays of gullibility by interlocutors, often sincere and intelligent, who choose to live in a headspace where the law is Harry Potter-style magic rather than the complex social and political institutions in which lawyers and judges actually work. What is even more soul-numbing—and significantly less intelligent—is seeing this level of dysfunction displayed by the chief executive.
Yesterday, mostly out of the blue, the American people were treated to just this sight. Donald Trump suddenly decided that federal pardons aren’t real pardons because a presidential signature wasn’t an actual signature.
Here is Trump’s post on his proprietary social medium site:
The ‘Pardons’ that Sleepy Joe Biden gave to the Unselect committee of Political Thugs, and many others, are hereby declared VOID, VACANT, AND OF NO FURTHER FORCE OR EFFECT, because of the fact that they were done by Autopen. In other words, Joe Biden did not sign them but, more importantly, he did not know anything about them!
Thank you, Mr. President, but, well . . . no.
Here is a small sampler of what is wrong with Trump’s latest paroxysm. First, Trump doesn’t know that Biden used an autopen. The “report” by the magicians at the Heritage Foundation’s “Oversight Project” is based on the fact that signatures on online documents signed by Biden bear identical signatures. This, of course, must mean that the originals were signed by Autopen.
Except, um, no: even before Trump’s tantrum, Snopes.com had explained that this “evidence” was not evidence at all:
the National Archives, which runs the Federal Register, said in an emailed statement that official documents published in the Federal Register use a copy of the president’s signature that “comes from one graphic file.” “At the beginning of each administration, the White House sends a sample of the President’s signature to the Office of the Federal Register, which uses it to create the graphic image for all Presidential Documents published in the Federal Register,” communications staff at the National Archives wrote. As the Federal Register’s digitized documents do not represent what the signature looks like on the original documents, the Oversight Project’s claim lacks credibility.
Beyond that, there is no principle of law invalidating a pardon—or any presidential document—because an autopen signs it. The autopen, invented by Thomas Jefferson (for those scoring at home, our third President), is as American as the Thanksgiving turkey pardon. By law, a presidential autopen signature on a document is as valid as one written by hand. A formal opinion from the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel delivered in July 2005, “Whether the President May Sign a Bill by Directing That His Signature Be Affixed to It,” clarifies this. After an extensive review of the history of presidential signatures and the meaning of the term in the context of the Constitution, the opinion states, “We conclude that the President need not personally perform the physical act of affixing his signature to a bill to sign it within the meaning of Article I, Section 7.”
Here is a critical fact broken down into particles small enough to be digested even by the Oversight Project: Even if you think the OLC opinion is wrong, it is still the law. You don’t get to begin invalidating documents by pretending it does not exist.
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President Nutbar of the United States of Arseholes.
He looks good on you!
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