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Originally Posted by Malign0n
I very much thought about this. Pardons are usually handled by the justice department so it's already bureaucratized, just need to scale it up, perhaps expanding it to other executive agencies like you mentioned?
However, I read somewhere that pardons only provide relief to federal criminal statutes and not civil ones like immigration... But could he easily expand this power under interpretation of Article 2 Section 2 could the courts allow a blanket reprieve under the assumption that the president has few limits on his presidential pardon power?
could the courts allow a blanket reprieve under the assumption that the president has few limits on his presidential pardon power?
Is an immigration offense considered an offense against the United States?
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Any violation of federal law can count as an offense against united states. If it said crime then only crimes could be pardoned, but with this language it can be stretched to cover civil violations as well. You could technically get a pardon for littering in a federal building...
Courts tend to not interfere with what other branches are doing, there has been numerous suits to review the filibuster rules and time after time again the courts have snuck out a window in order to not deal with it. If republishits were to sue against the president and the other parts of the executive for throwing pardons left and right, the courts would most likely say "well, you're not affected here, so you don't have the legal standing to bring up a suit, get lost".