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- politics@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- politics@lemmy.world
Summary
Sen. Bernie Sanders urged President Biden to “very seriously” consider pre-emptive pardons for members of the Jan. 6 Committee after Trump threatened to jail them.
Trump has also pledged to pardon convicted Jan. 6 rioters, calling their imprisonment unjust.
Sanders condemned Trump’s remarks as authoritarian, while some Republicans, including Sen. Lindsey Graham, disagreed with Trump’s proposal.
Committee members, including Adam Schiff and Bennie Thompson, defended their work, calling Trump’s comments an attack on democracy and the rule of law.
Why do people think Trump would abide by pardons? He and many of the politicians supporting him have stomped all over tradition, procedure, and legal mandates.
He’ll get the supreme court to allow a sitting president to cancel pardons but for some reason he’ll be the only one that applies to if a Democrat tries to use that power at some point.
A Democrat would say some shit about bipartisanship or something and never use that power and then get walked all over and allow the country to suffer.
It’d increase the amount of work he has to do and slow down his ability to act.
He’s a living rubber stamp. What else does he need to do? Do you think any ideas come up with before and during his presidency are his own?