Re:Trump Pardons Convicted Binance Founder
by I-M-S on Thursday October 23, 2025 @08:39PM
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The US Constitution wasn't written with the wellbeing of random ordinary citizens in mind. You could argue it was the exact opposite in fact.
Re:Trump Pardons Convicted Binance Founder
by estearum on Thursday October 23, 2025 @10:44PM
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More importantly it was written under the assumption that political elites would understand and act against the risk of electing a broken demagogue.
But alas, the modern GOP’s cravenness beggars belief.
Re:Trump Pardons Convicted Binance Founder
by neilv on Thursday October 23, 2025 @09:14PM
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I think you're onto something, for a kind of second-chance review function, but instead of "with an Ivy League education", perhaps you most want people knowledgeable about both judicial process and society.
"Ivy League education" isn't a totally bad predictor, but it's going to be very biased towards people with privileged socioeconomic backgrounds, who therefore may have blind spots of aspects of society that apply to the situation. (No matter how many books they've read, classes they've taken, years of volunteering with the less-advantaged they've done, and hours of NPR they've listened to.)
Right, not hard at all, but apparently whoever wrote the Constitution was a fucking moron.