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| Topic | Trump is telling officials to start seizing private land for border wall |
| darkknight109 08/28/19 4:49:08 PM #38: | SeahorseCpt89 posted... Im not sure if thats how pardoning works. All a pardon does is stop you from going to jail, or whatever punishment youd face for criminal charges. You can still lose your job if youre doing something illegal like this and private land owners can still fight them on this. I would think so anyway. Well, their job is for the government and Trump is the head of the executive branch, so no, they probably wouldn't get fired. That being said, Trump's pardon power only extends to federal crimes and unilaterally seizing land without going through the proper process would violate a raft of state-level crimes that Trump has exactly zero power to pardon, so no bureaucrat with a brain would ever risk doing it. The courts can and probably would step in to block egregious gaps in oversight. Trump's argument of "These regulations must be ignored, because this haste is a matter of national defence," is, from a legalistic point of view, not a bad one... but he would need to prove that this truly is a matter of national defence and I think that's a pretty flimsy argument, especially given that immigrant crime levels are lower than native born and unemployment is currently exceptionally low. Oh the one hand, courts typically give wide deference to the executive branch on issues of executive authority; on the other, the Trump administration's record in court has been laughably bad (a win rate of ~6%, if memory serves), so I don't like their chances. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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