The difference between all the illegal shit that the administration has been doing and this is that the president kind of feasibly had power to order immediate action, so people obeyed, BUT he was also supposed obey the judiciary when it said he couldn’t do that, and he didn’t do that. They move fast so that when people call them on it, it’s already done and they can say they can’t do anything about it.
NOT doing something is a lot easier to get away with than doing it. Pardoning a state crime would be a case where the action would be 100% clear to be illegal from the get-go, so doing it fast and then pretending to be suddenly helpless wouldn’t work. He would actually need the entire system in that state to obey him over the law when they have no defense for doing so and no assurance that they’ll be pardoned or rewarded at all. It might happen, but it’s also not very feasible yet.
A thing being illegal does not make it impossible.
I could say an enemy of the state cannot be elected (14th amendment), but here we are.
The difference between all the illegal shit that the administration has been doing and this is that the president kind of feasibly had power to order immediate action, so people obeyed, BUT he was also supposed obey the judiciary when it said he couldn’t do that, and he didn’t do that. They move fast so that when people call them on it, it’s already done and they can say they can’t do anything about it. NOT doing something is a lot easier to get away with than doing it. Pardoning a state crime would be a case where the action would be 100% clear to be illegal from the get-go, so doing it fast and then pretending to be suddenly helpless wouldn’t work. He would actually need the entire system in that state to obey him over the law when they have no defense for doing so and no assurance that they’ll be pardoned or rewarded at all. It might happen, but it’s also not very feasible yet.