{"id":11071,"date":"2024-12-23T15:06:51","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T23:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=11071"},"modified":"2024-12-23T15:30:51","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T23:30:51","slug":"a-proposed-pardon-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=11071","title":{"rendered":"A Proposed Pardon Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">Following up on posts <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=11044\">here<\/a> and <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=11065\">here<\/a>, I submit a proposed constitutional amendment on pardons:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\"><!--more--><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center; font family: Times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Proposed Pardon Reform Constitutional Amendment<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<em>Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled<\/em>, That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years after the date of its submission for ratification:<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201c<span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">Article<\/span> \u2014<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201c<span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">Section<\/span> 1. Any pardon or commutation granted in the last 120 days of a President\u2019s term of office shall not take effect until 30 days after the beginning the following term. The President, or the Vice President in cases subject to section 2 of this article, may revoke any pardon or commutation subject to this section prior to its effective date.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201c<span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">Section<\/span> 2. Where the subject of executive clemency is the President, the President\u2019s spouse or child, or any other member of the President\u2019s family as defined by Congress, the clemency power is vested in the Vice President rather than the President.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following up on posts here and here, I submit a proposed constitutional amendment on pardons:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clemency"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A Proposed Pardon Reform - Crime &amp; Consequences<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=11071\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Proposed Pardon Reform - Crime &amp; 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