Just in case any future presidents need a precedent for this kinda stuff.
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Yea like Ford's pardon of Nixon, you mean those precedents?
Maybe Biden should make Hunter ambassador to France for the rest of the year
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All the other cases where they sentenced someone with a federal gun charge for lying on the form were plea deals. ABC said they couldn't find any instances of someone being charged and convicted on that charge alone. You can't say this wasn't a politically motivated prosecution when the charge has never been used that way before.
Dem voters for about 20 years:
We need regulations!
Moderates:
No, just enforce what we have! Stop asking for what we need!
Also moderatess:
Are you nuts?! We can't enforce the rules when our side break them!!
As liberals brush it off as if there isn't a 2 tiered justice system in the US.
Liberal here, there is definitely a 2 tiered justice system in the US what are you even talking about
Our disagreement is over the idea that somehow the billionaire with an army of lawyers, who appointed half the judges his cases are in front of, and has been given every conceivable affordance and courtesy, is anywhere other than the top of the privileged tier.
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Democrats aren’t exactly being a role model right now, but a lot of them are probably covering the asses of their own since Republicans are so blind by fascistic rage that they’re going to put a lot of innocent heads on pikes.
This thread reads like a satire of how Democrats are happy to sink lower and lower while using the GOP as an excuse.
Too bad they don't sink lower when prosecuting trump for insurrection.
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Yeah. I’m willing to say when I see my far-preferred party doing something I consider unethical, but I also recognize their game theory and why the current circumstances would lead them to make myopic decisions in the interest of short-term survival and at the cost of long-term reputation and public perception.
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So his lame duck period is even more full-throated support for Israel and pardoning his own failson. He could, like, do anything at all that helps people. Any sort of progressive, popular idea that would actually benefit Americans. Hell, even if he failed it would do wonders for his legacy. He could try to do something, anything, to start making up for dragging down the entire party by refusing to drop out earlier, or allow for an actual primary. But nah. Pardons for Hunter.
He could, like, do anything at all that helps people.
You'd think the minimum would be "not leave federal judicial picks open" with him having a D senate this whole time...
https://www.uscourts.gov/judges-judgeships/judicial-vacancies/current-judicial-vacancies
Sitting at 42 trump will get to seat if they don't get their shit together. Bidens only nominated 12, so it's almost impossible all 42 gets seated.
If he or the other ghouls wanted to do anything that benefits working people they would have done it when they could get votes for it.
Its not the first time dems look indistinguishable from republicans (who are fascists) on Joe's watch, is it.
Biden is a guy who participated in obvious war crimes that 88% of his party didnt support-- as a democrat.. And imperiously ignored the key issues of the campaign. Of course he's going to pardon his shitty d-bag lobbyist son on the way out the door. Biden has lowered the bar for his party, for democracy, and for the entire western world order straight through the floor and deep into bedrock. We'll need some sort of engineering miracle to ever even raise the bar up to ground level, much less hold it any higher anytime soon.
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But Biden said he was the justice guy and he would not intervene!
All the excuses to pardon Hunter out of "fear of Trump" could be used to excuse things that actually helped the public
Well that's a robust fuck you to republicans.
Yikes. This is not going to go over well.