• @Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      313 days ago

      That’s wild that you can just pardon yourself. I’m pretty sure that kind of thing was even in the Magna Carta ages ago but it’s a thing still in 2024

      • @Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        313 days ago

        Yeah, the whole idea of having a president, and not a king, is that they are not above the law too. We saw how that idea was ensured by the supreme court.

        • @Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          3
          edit-2
          13 days ago

          I’m convinced that even on the stuff we know and has been proven in court about Trump, would have been enough to dethrone a European monarch, possibly violently, back in the 1800s, but Trump’s supporters and most of the u.s just allows it and roll with it in 2024

          • @Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            413 days ago

            I mean, it is fun to joke about. However, I doubt it. Even as late at the 19th century monarchs were blatantly having rivals imprisoned, and executed. Having large groups of people just rounded up and imprisoned, and/or killed, were stealing large amounts of wealth from the tax payers, and just so, so, much shit. They only really ever found themselves suffering legal consequences when other aristocracy decided they needed to go, or that someone else would be better. That, or if material conditions go so bad widespread revolt broke out, and mob justice was served.

      • @the_crotch@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        313 days ago

        It’s wild the president can pardon anyone. It completely bypasses the legal system and gives the executive branch too much power.