Is this necessary?

FJO

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We hear about an out going President commuting sentences of criminals found guilty by their peers, setting murderers free, forgiving outrageous crimes for political reasons, letting tax cheats get away with being tax cheats, and spitting in the face of the people whose court found a felon guilty.

Why??

Why does a president have this power? Why does a president exercise this power only in the last minutes of his term? Why do the people let a president get away with such abuse of power?
  1. This practice is a left over from the time when the monarch had the absolute power of life and death over his/her subjects. This sick practice should have been dumped in the harbor along with the tea, and should have been abandoned on the scrap heap of history as King George was abandoned by freedom loving people 240 years ago.
2. For the sake of equality and fairness, should the president not have the power and ability to convict as well as to pardon and acquit?

3. Does this practice not put the executive branch above the other two and make the notion of co-equal branches of government a joke?

4. Out going presidents of both parties do this. Is there ever going to be an honest one who refuses to take part in this?
 
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Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1

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The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.

that's why.

& the Constitution cannot be changed; only amended.
 

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