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Jed Shugerman
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I’m thinking we are going to have national conversation about a thousand more insane pardons and one big self-pardon in Jan 2021. (Or Jan 2025?)
It would be great to reach a consensus that there are fiduciary limits on faithless execution of the office’s pardon power. 1/
2/ Ethan Leib and I argue that self-pardons (and self-serving pardons of co-conspirators) are faithless execution of the office, based on the historical understanding of fiduciary constitutionalism: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
3/ More historical background on Faithful Execution, Article II, and fiduciary constitutionalism from @andrewkent33, Leib and me:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
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Jed Shugerman
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Apparently Rudy was trying to explain the doctored Pelosi outtakes video by showing us what true undoctored incoherence looks like. (One of them needs a doctor, and it’s not @SpeakerPelosi.)
Just adding a screenshot to memorialize this:
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Impeachment Catch-22.
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1. What‘s the chance a committee impeachment inquiry - not an impeachment vote - will hurt Dems politically? Split her caucus? Jeopardize swing seats?
She knows better than I do, and it’s her job to prioritize them.
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@KFILE Love this ratio.
If Warren did no legal work as a prof, we’d see articles about Warren the ivory tower all-talk, no-work professor.
If she always took the labor side, she’d be framed as commie ideologue.
Btw, I’ve become a better teacher as I worked as amicus on more cases.
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