The Leftwing Radical Obama Abused The Presidential Pardon Powers; Should The Presidential Powers Be Revoked (Harry Reid, Congress)

[fordtrucks]

The presidential pardon powers has been abused by both sides of the aisle. However, thru the years the left has abused it to the extent of incredible total disregard of law and decency. Is it time to revoke the presidential pardon powers.

[North Beach Person]

That would be an Amendment.

[Tired of the Nonsense]

Originally Posted by fordtrucks

The presidential pardon powers has been abused by both sides of the aisle. However, thru the years the left has abused it to the extent of incredible total disregard of law and decency. Is it time to revoke the presidential pardon powers.

Revoked by whom?

[rbohm]

so a president abused the pardon power granted to him, taking away that power would still be a bad idea. remember when harry reid got the senate to change the way the senate votes on bills? its coming back to bite the democrats now and they are regretting supporting reid on it.

lets stop looking at what one president has done, and look at what ALL presidents have done with the powers granted to them through the constitution. and before we go down the road of eliminating powers of the president, congress and the courts, stop and think what would happen in the future. dont be so short sighted when dealing with things like this.

[skepticratic]

Originally Posted by Tired of the Nonsense

Revoked by whom?

Legislatures. And that was plural for a reason.

In order for the presidential pardon to be revoked, a constitutional amendment would have to be passed. This requires either 2/3 of states legislators to call for a constitutional convention (this has never happened in 27 amendments) or for congress to draft an amendment. Once 2/3 of both the House and Senate approve of the amendment, it's then sent to the governors of each state, who will submit it to their state legislators to vote yay or nay. If 3/4 of all state legislators (this means 38 states must approve the amendment) approve, the amendment is then formally ratified.

The big point to remember here is that actually getting an amendment through is very difficult, particularly if it even slightly smells of partisan bias or is in some way controversial. I sincerely doubt that revoking the presidents power to veto would ever actually happen.