Page Pate Appears on CNN’s ‘New Day Weekend’ To Discuss the Roger Stone Commutation
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BLACKWELL: "Probably slim chances of that actually becoming a law. But rec son style that with the Constitution and what it would take to get it done."
PATE: "Yeah, Victor, that would be an unconstitutional law if it ever passed. Because the Constitution clearly gives full pardon power to the president. It’s completely unchecked. And there were some objections about that when it was put into the Constitution. But James Madison said, look, it’s not a problem. If a president ever tried to pardon anyone he may have been connected with in the commission of a crime, he would be immediately impeached. Well, obviously, that’s not going to happen in this environment. So the idea that there would be a check on the pardon power in the Constitution never made it. So to change the pardon power, we’re going to have to amend the Constitution and that is a huge effort. And I don’t see that happening."
