‘No precedent’: Texas Attorney General shuts down MAGA host on revoking Biden’s pardons
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a staunch conservative, pushed back after Newsmax host Chris Salcedo argued that President Joe Biden's pardons and commutations should be revoked because he wasn't "of sound mind."
"Sir, Joe Biden is commuting sentences for inmates on death row," Salcedo told Paxton in a Christmas Eve interview. "Some have suggested that since Robert Hur determined that Joe Biden wasn't of sound mind to stand trial for the crimes he committed, you know, stealing classified information from this country for over four decades, that a challenge to these pardons could be made based on Joe Biden not being of sound mind."
Paxton suggested Salcedo would not get his Christmas wish.
"There's no precedent," the Texas attorney general said. "I mean, under Article II, Section II of the Constitution, the president has the right to pardon and commute and do other certain things, amnesty for certain groups."
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"There's nothing addressed in the Constitution, as far as I know, or in any other federal law, as to what happens if the president is serving, making decisions while he is not competent," he continued. "You would think that that president should have already been removed. That has not happened."
"It would be ultimately up to the U.S. Supreme Court to make that call."