alt Hacker News>>the prohibition on ex post facto laws would only affect pardons going forward.
That is plainly wrong. A constitutional amendment can say anything. There are no prohibitions.
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fuzzfactor • yesterday at 5:53 PM
Whatever it takes would be worth it.
An example needs to be set.
Well, no, it’s in the US Constitution. So I suppose congress could add a constitutional amendment to remove the prohibition on ex post facto laws. But that’s so unthinkable it might as well be a fantasy. Far from “plainly wrong,” which seems unnecessarily aggressive verbiage.