CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoJustice Department says Jan. 6 pipe bomb suspect believed election conspiracy theorieswww.politico.comexternal-linkmessage-square14linkfedilinkarrow-up1170arrow-down12
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minus-squareFoxyFerengilinkfedilinkarrow-up16·3 months agoI’m pretty sure the way Trump wrote the pardon for Jan 6th (extremely vaguely) means this guy will get a pardon.
minus-squaresanta@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 months agoHe wrote it to pardon future criminals? That sounds legal. /s
minus-squareFoxyFerengilinkfedilinkarrow-up7·edit-23 months agoIt is actually legal. We know he used the pardon in a corrupt way, but the pardon being upheld for people who haven’t gone through court yet has legal precedent dating back to the civil war.
minus-squaresanta@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoI guess laws matters more when it works to advantage of party supported by conservative justices of SCOTUS.
I’m pretty sure the way Trump wrote the pardon for Jan 6th (extremely vaguely) means this guy will get a pardon.
He wrote it to pardon future criminals? That sounds legal. /s
It is actually legal. We know he used the pardon in a corrupt way, but the pardon being upheld for people who haven’t gone through court yet has legal precedent dating back to the civil war.
I guess laws matters more when it works to advantage of party supported by conservative justices of SCOTUS.