Can congress pass a law preventing the president from handing out pardons like popcorn?

Question

...a wise man or woman would beat his majesty 2 the punch.

...if it can be ammended;we can change it...vote

Hey Pisano!...who said anything about Bush?...what?...is your concience bothering u?Anyway...there is nothing 2 get over but there is alot to be said!

Hey TAT!...I really don't giv a f#@k about LIBBY!...Bush is the countries problem...he's a spoiled BRAT!

Answer 1

How's that petition drive for the Constitutional Amendment going?

Answer 2

Well this is easy to answer have you ever read the Constitution of the United States Of America?
If not than I will tell you the answer is No! the Congress can not pass a law stopping the President from whom he can pardon, when the framers drafted the constitution the part of it is at the full discretion of the President as to who he can pardon and how many he can pardon and it can not be challenged not even in the U.S.Supreme Court,look it up it is there in black and white and it has been going on if I remember right since George Washington,if I am wrong than let me know ok.

Answer 3

No, ephatically NO~! The president of the United States of America has an unhindered right to grant pardons, per the Constitution. The only way to change that right would be to have a Constitutional convention to make changes to that most wonderful of documents. PS; Bill Clinton granted far more pardons than "W" ever will,including 16 FALN terrorists (Puerto Ricans) his brother, the doper & Mark Rich. I'll wager you never said anything about those pardons, did you?

Answer 4

It would take a constitutional amendment passed by 2/3 of the House and Senate and 38 of the 50 states.

Answer 5

Clinton handed out more than a hundred. He pardoned his brother (40 of those on his last day in office). He pardoned Mark Rich who was involved in financial fraud connected to a terrorist organization. No one screamed then. Maybe if the judge had allowed Libby to stay free until the appeal, there would have been no pardon. Libby did not leak Plame's name and he was not charged with that. He was charged with not remembering some ambiguous date.

Answer 6

No. It would require amending the Constitution to change Article 2 Section 2 where the President is granted that power.

Answer 7

This "pardon" thing has been a point of contention for a long time.


CHECK THIS OUT, IT'S PRETTY COOL:
http://www.time.com/time/2007/presidential_pardons/


It's customary for a sentence to be partially served before can pardon someone.

Bush is not working for America... Bush and his family have a long history of support for the Nazi party and were even caught financing Hilter's Third Reich.

His father bailed out of his plane during WW2 and let his crew die (the weren't lucky enough to bail out like G.H.W. Bush did. So even he killed a few American's for his buddy Hitler.

I can't wait till Dick Cheney gets his new Dubai Halliburton offices finished, maybe he'll take W, Scooter and of course, himself and leave this country.

Answer 8

I am sure that there is a way that it could be done under the constitution. It would probably require an amendmant.

I would support it. Why should the President be letting people off the hook for thier crimes? Isn't that something that an appeal court is for?

Answer 9

You are on the right track. We can amend the constitution to change the way pardons can be used. If we can go to the moon, we certainly can make sense of our laws.

Answer 10

I'm sure they could, but it would have to, of course, get by the president. What do you think the chances are of that?

People, we know what Clinton did, can you seriously stop rationalizing every screw up that Bush has done in terms of what Clinton did? Clinton was a good, but flawed, president. All presidents have been flawed. But only a select few have been as bad as Bush. Get over it!