Am I wrong about this???

[Peacetrain]

If bartenders can go to jail for over-serving a drunk person who then harms someone,


then Presidents should go to jail when criminals they pardon commit new crimes!

Not my original thought, but it made me stop and think

[niyad]

1. In a sane world, the answer would be "Yes". But, in a sane world,

such a thing would be unlikely.

[Frasier Balzov]

2. Our scholarly SCOTUS majority

has awarded him immunity from dram shop liability.

[twodogsbarking]

4. I don't think he is President. He is something else. He just uses people to get what he wants.

The Presidency was just a vehicle. He is now the emporer.

[KS Toronado]

5. Revolving door commercial cost Michael Dukakis the White House

[MichMan]

6. Maybe judges and prosecutors too?

[Polybius]

7. As a former bartender, I used to hate that law

I didn't over-serve, but always worried what if they were already drunk when they walked in, and I served them two drinks?

[MIButterfly]

8. I hear you, Polybius.

I worked in the restaurant and bar business for 24 years before I moved on to greener pastures and I was always afraid of that. I've seen people come in, sit down at the bar, looking and acting as sober as a judge, have one drink and fall out on the floor. As a matter of fact, I worked one place where a district judge was a regular at lunch and he passed out at the table and the owner said anyone who cuts him off is automatically fired. I refused to serve him so someone else did. Then he woke up and I assume, went back to court for the afternoon docket, sending drunk drivers to jail, no doubt.

I got hundreds of stories like that and I'm sure you do too, Polybius.