The power of a president to issue pardons is derived from Article II, Section 2, Clause 1 of the U.S. Constitution: which stipulates: The president shall have power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for offenses against the United States, except in Cases of impeachment. Yet a president has unmitigated power to issue three distinct types of pardons: amnesty, commutation, and reprieve. Pardoning Nixon literally cast an abominable curse on future presidents not held accountable for their crimes.
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What kind of person goes to sleep and wakes up thinking he or she has to go out into an African American community to find unarmed Black people to gun down in broad daylight?
The legal system is set up for politicians, conglomerations, and public officials to operate with immunity, and otherwise is not subject to formal legal sanctions when they break the law. Most officials are aware that many times they violate the constitution, but because they are rich and White the issue is wiped under the rug.
In Maryland, the Prince George’s County Public Schools Board of Education believes in the biblical Proverb 22:6 which states, “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old enough he will not depart from it.” That is why school officials were determined to implement a policy that trains a child to adopt and practice LGBTQIA+ behaviors at school, then helps the child hide their gender identity from parents.
Saving the Planet Matters Enough to Measure Honestly
Jeb Bush, former Governor of Florida and a former candidate for President of the United States of America; was the only politician who called me after a car crash in Tallahassee resulted in me being rushed to a trauma center, placed in ICU, and treated for a brain injury.
Taking Life For Granted
This deliberate contamination of the public commons is a license to kill, a criminally reckless endangerment of sea life and the food web. Yet the 1992 ban on ocean dumping of radioactive waste applies only to barrels thrown from ships, not liquids sent into the sea through pipes. Further, the Law of the Sea allows victims to bring legal action only after an alleged harm has occurred, and then puts the burden of proof on victims to show that their illness(es) were caused by a particular radioactive poison.
Just as all Americans remember 9/11, Japanese remember 3/11, the day in 2011 that an earthquake and tsunami overwhelmed the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, destroying a town, poisoning a wide area around it, and raising questions about nuclear safety in much the same way as the Chernobyl nuclear accident had in 1986.
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