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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBiden's first two pardons...ought to be
The GA state official who was arrested for trying to view the signing of the voter suppression bill
and Reality Winter. Get on it right now!
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Biden's first two pardons...ought to be (Original Post)
joetheman
Mar 2021
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hlthe2b
(113,202 posts)1. Presidents can't pardon state crimes. He can, however pardon Reality Winter.
no_hypocrisy
(54,566 posts)2. Biden could pardon Gov. Don Siegelman
He was unjustly convicted for federal corruption.
brooklynite
(96,882 posts)4. Apparently President Obama didn't think it was warranted.
Elessar Zappa
(16,385 posts)5. Doesn't mean that Biden can't re-evaluate.
brooklynite
(96,882 posts)3. You realize she'll never be convicted, right?
Elected officials get arrested for protesting all the time. The charges never carry through.
Liberal In Texas
(16,090 posts)6. WINNER...Not Winter.
Reality Winner.
And I agree. Pardon her.
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Doc Sportello
(7,964 posts)7. Leonard Peltier should be the first
Convicted of a crime he didn't commit but still in prison because of the culture wars of the 60s and 70s and because no one in power will stand up to the FBI on this.
https://www.whoisleonardpeltier.info/
Metatron
(1,260 posts)8. Hell, yes it should be Peltier.
Doc Sportello
(7,964 posts)9. Thanks, I'm glad people still remember him n/t
Patterson
(1,579 posts)11. What about the Texas woman who got 5 years for "election fraud."
