• IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    10 hours ago

    Exactly … why bother with a complicated justice system when one person can step in to ignore the entire process. The fact that one individual can pardon others means that it is an incomplete and flawed system.

    • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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      10 hours ago

      It was originally created as a check / balance. But now that the legislature is completely neutered to hold the executive branch accountable, and the supreme court has made itself subservient to the executive, we’re just… You know… Fucked.