Nicole Malachowski

Going after our rights.

Exactly.

Yeah.

It's disturbing.

So I would say this is a piece of good news I woke up to this morning.

When I read what this bipartisan kind of group of representatives is trying to do to reform the presidential pardon process, I am fully in support of that.

You know, I do think there may be circumstances where the executive branch and the president reserving the right, you know, to pardon not convicted criminals, right, like people who've gone through the process, like, for example, January 6th insurrectionists who were convicted –

of assaulting police officers and then pardon.

That's ridiculous.

There may be some circumstances, and maybe I need to think more of this, where a president might need to be able to pardon somebody, but I don't think they should ever be able to pardon somebody without oversight.

And so what I do love about this proposal coming out of Congress is that it requires two-thirds of support from both the House and the Senate.

That is in alignment with other process and procedures as far as approval.

I think it's a great step in the right direction.

So I don't necessarily think we need to get rid of all presidential pardons, but some kind of oversight that by the two thirds has to be, you know, just by numbers, bipartisan is a great way to go.

100%.

I think the pardon has been abused.

I think it's being used unethically.

I will do some more thinking about should the pardon be completely gone away.

But I think you and I can agree that in the interim, this is a good step in the right direction.

Yeah.