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In reply to the discussion: Something is fundamentally wrong with our system when one of our planet's [View all]paleotn
(17,781 posts)39. It will still have to be adjudicated publicly.
And by a court system that owes him nothing. They have life time appointments. He didn't know any of these people anyway, so there's no bond of loyalty to his orange ass. The law is silent on self pardoning by a president. It is also silent on so called secret pardons. When it comes to blanket pardons, there's the problem of specificity. Federally, all this adjudication might take a while. BUT....NY and GA are free to indict, arrest, convict and imprison regardless of what Donnie did in the middle of the night when no one was watching. And like Al Capone, the financial crimes, will probably be his undoing.
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Magoo48
Feb 2021
OP
I hate to nitpick, since I agree with all of this. But I feel compelled to point out that
ShazzieB
Feb 2021
#2
It is worse than that - he can continuously break any law and not be held accountable
Under The Radar
Feb 2021
#4
I read that because he drew up the pardons himself, they were so narrowly written that
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
Feb 2021
#45
use AI to automatically record, transcribe, and analyze it - expose it, and boycott it until the
certainot
Feb 2021
#53
That is an important point. When you talk of the GOP training their sights on state level,
BobTheSubgenius
Feb 2021
#33
That is the other big point I was going to make, but you were ahead of me.
BobTheSubgenius
Feb 2021
#34
I think that this is one instance where you can hate both the player and the game.
Initech
Feb 2021
#20
About the amphibian/reptile error. Sorry about that. I taught science for crying outloud.
Magoo48
Feb 2021
#27
I suggest as time passes certain types of people learn of game the system, any system.
TryLogic
Feb 2021
#30
Well I've been thinking about this question of how to proceed to clean it up
msfiddlestix
Feb 2021
#52