• cosmicrookie@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    You’re kidding right? Pardons in themselves are crazy, but didn’t know presidents can pardon themselves?

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      11 months ago

      Turns out most of the US government relied on norms, traditions, and basic human decency, but very little of it was actually codified into law. Which in this day and age is like having no rules at all since no one has any shame anymore

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      The rules around pardons are incredibly vague. Presidents have typically treated them vary seriously and used them sparingly. Then Trump saw it as an opportunity to make some cash and do favors for his cronies who committed crimes to help him.

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      11 months ago

      The legal consensus is that they can’t, but it’s never been tested --nor did anyone ever seriously conceive of it as a possibility-- so it’s theoretically possible as a matter of law.

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      Only works on Federal crimes the state and local ones that he committed will still stick. So that Georgia election will not be going away

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      11 months ago

      You seriously haven’t heard any discussion about a president potentially pardoning himself? Where have you been the last 6 years

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        As a non-american, living in an other continent, this is indeed news to me. It’s honestly the first time I hear about this being annactual possibility. I’m fact, its a couple of days ago that I found out, (through Lemmy) that there is no limit to how many pardons a president can issue! I thought it was only a few!

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          Word around town is Trump was selling pardons for $2M each. If you look at some of the pardons he granted on his way out, it seems quite possible.