His. Ben Sasse
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Senator Roger Jason StoneGOP on Trump pardons: “This is rotten to the bottom” as “rotten to the core.”
Sasse issued his statement Wednesday evening, specifically mentioning Manafort and Stone.
“This is rotten to the core,” he said in solitude.
Sasse’s statement said “criminals like Manafort and Stone” had “blatantly and repeatedly violated the law and harmed Americans.”
Sasse was the first Republican Party senator to criticize the pardons. Others are likely to follow.
Trump also pardoned Charles Kushner, the father of his son-in-law, Jared Kushner
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Former governor of New Jersey Chris Christie
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Rep. Adam Schiff
Adam Bennett Schiff, GOP Senator on Trump’s Pardons: “This is Rotten to the Core” Republican Party Presses Pelosi on Swalwell Trump pardons accused people in Russia’s investigation (D-California), the Democratic attorney general during Trump’s ouster process, called Manafort’s pardon particularly outrageous.
“During Mueller’s investigation, Trump’s lawyer apologized to Manafort. Manafort withdrew his collaboration with prosecutors, lied, was convicted, and then Trump praised him for not “scratching” him. Trump’s pardon now completes the corrupt scheme. No law until the bitter end, ”Schiff said on Twitter.
Several Republicans in the Senate urged Trump to avoid causing a pardon scandal.
His. Susan Collins
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“In general, I think presidents should receive advice from the pardon office that is in the Department of Justice,” he said. “But the president’s pardon authority is very broad.”
His. Pat Toomey
Patrick (Pat) Joseph Toomey The government used the Patriot Act to gather records of website visitors in 2019 The appeals court rules that the massive collection of telephone data from the illegal NSA Dunford withdraws from consideration to chair the MORE coronavirus monitoring panel (R-Pa.), Who is retiring from Congress in late 2022, said: “I think pardons should be used with great caution.”
Trump’s controversial pardons are likely to spark more debate over whether to re-examine the president’s broad constitutional power over federal rulings.
Paul Rosenzweig, who served as prosecutor during the Whitewater investigation into former President Clinton, wrote to The Atlantic on Wednesday that one of the nation’s founding fathers, George Mason, foresaw the possibility that future presidents could use pardons to help the political allies or accomplices.
Mason argued that the president “should not have the power to pardon, because he can often pardon the crimes he himself advised.”
“It may happen that one day in the future, a monarchy will be established and the republic will be destroyed. If you have the power to grant pardons prior to the indictment or conviction, may you not stop the investigation and prevent detection? He wrote.