Thank you for understanding the assignment. These are not ordinary times. When an incoming criminal syndicate is saying they intend to go after folks for vengeance, pardons will protect the innocent.
What a great idea! If only others (bulwark, CO gov) could put the Hunter pardon in proper perspective and focus on what we can do to protect US citizens from fascism. President of the United States used his constitutional power to pardon a citizen caught up in trivial paper work crimes. Next.
I hope he does. Trump is bent on retribution and revenge. Those people that spoke out against him, or hold him accountable, will be vulnerable. You can bet there won't be any price tag for a pardon with Biden. Not like his predecessor.
In PA polls were cleared out from Russian bomb threats. How many voters were unable to return due to work? Musk illegally paid voters one million dollars to vote for Trump. No MAGA waited for more than ten minutes while college kids waited 7 hours and the race was called while they were in line.
Possibly. But, Thomas, do you actually think “most people” are paying attention?
As I see it Trump et al are on a revenge tour. The criminals will be running the show- Patel comes with a personal hit list. I’m getting tired of bringing logic and fine “upstandingness” to the lawless brawl.
That works for "crimes" prior to Trump taking office, but what about after?
Some of the "list" consists of Journalist who would essentially need to quit to maintain no exposure to "Trumped-up Charges".
*Moral Hazard territory of how Trump then uses the same process before any act.
Here's a bunch of potential pardon recipients in no particular order:
1. women who cross state lines seeking reproductive health care (IVF and abortions).
2. doctors and facilitators who help women seeking reproductive health care (IVF and abortions, including obtaining/delivering mifepristone).
3. pardon all those involved in the enforcement of federal law against malicious prosecutions by Trump - protecting all those who were prosecuting Trump in the federal cases.
For 3, the idea is to protect them from themselves being maliciously prosecuted by Trump's fascists at FBI/DOJ.
As an aside, Trump defense counsel who poses as a federal judge, Aileen Cannon declared a special counsel appointed by Biden to be null and void. Which means the Special Counsel for Hunter Biden was null and void (Hunter's pardon can't then be objected to by right-wingers).
Trump will have right-wing liar Jonathan Turley declare all Biden pardons null and void (or have some have some other right-wing liar like Jeffrey Clark or Eastman declare that).
Yes. I would do blanket pardons. Rest assured though that Trump will claim he has total immunity (thanks to his Republican pals on the Supreme Court) to disregard any Biden pardons. Trump is a convicted felon who has no respect for the law, millions voted for criminality.
Yes, and the slogan can be 'nobody is below the law'. All Americans are equally entitled to the protections of the justice system, not threats that it will be weaponized against them.
The bottom line: Has Biden abused the pardon power of the Presidency? No. Has DT abused that power in the past, and will he again in his 2nd term? Yes. Any DT loyalist can commit a crime (any crime) and can avoid accountability with a DT pardon during DT's 2nd term in office.
Bad precedent to set. Remember what happened when Harry Reid changed the rules for confirming judges to simple majority? How's that working out? Those who never learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
It isn't time for pardons, it is time for Biden to break another pledge and use the immunity SCOTUS gave him to save democracy right now instead of putting America and the rest of the world through the hell Trump will bring.
totally agree.. and dude you got free pass from SCOTUS.. dammit use it to PROTECT AMERICA from MAGA and TRUMP. tie the .. up for years.. do.. executive orders.. MANY.
It's not the crimes they may have committed, it's the crimes they'll be charged with. The mere cost of defending themselves will bankrupt most people. Trump will sick his attack dogs in the DOJ without any "checks and balances." He'll get the IRS to do targeted audits and grind people into dust.
Woh.Wait a minute. Threatening is a crime that bears pardoning but pleading guilty to crimes, insert Hunter,isn’t a crime and should be pardoned? Huh? This is the rationale(insanity)of the loony left.Hunter was going to take the fall for the Biden Crime Family but daddy bailed both of them out.
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As I see it Trump et al are on a revenge tour. The criminals will be running the show- Patel comes with a personal hit list. I’m getting tired of bringing logic and fine “upstandingness” to the lawless brawl.
Some of the "list" consists of Journalist who would essentially need to quit to maintain no exposure to "Trumped-up Charges".
*Moral Hazard territory of how Trump then uses the same process before any act.
1. women who cross state lines seeking reproductive health care (IVF and abortions).
2. doctors and facilitators who help women seeking reproductive health care (IVF and abortions, including obtaining/delivering mifepristone).
For 3, the idea is to protect them from themselves being maliciously prosecuted by Trump's fascists at FBI/DOJ.
Take Trump's Hitlerian "enemy within" language seriously. Save as many people as you can.