Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., told Newsmax on Tuesday that the Senate is examining its options when it comes to challenging the blanket pardons that former President Joe Biden issued to his family members and others in the final minutes of his presidency.
“We are looking right now at what our recourse could be because it is a constitutional power given to the president that he is able to pardon these actions, but I don’t think that our founders ever anticipated that a president would issue a blanket and preemptive pardon for any crimes that may have been committed during a certain period of time,” Blackburn said on “The Chris Salcedo Show.” “No one’s ever heard of somebody just getting these blanket pardons so we would like to do something, some form of recourse.
“I don’t know if there would be a challenge on this at the Supreme Court or not, but it is disgusting that you have Joe Biden at the last minute go in and pardon his family members and then pardon [Sen.] Adam Schiff [D-Calif.], [former Rep.] Liz Cheney [R-Wyo.], Dr. [Anthony] Fauci, [former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff] Mark Milley, all of these people that were on the Jan. 6 committee,” she continued. “And you have to wonder: If someone accepts that pardon, is that an admission of guilt?”
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