I can't believe that anyone on the fediverse doesn't already know this
this post was submitted on 20 Jan 2025
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...yeah nice gesture I guess, but putting up legal barriers against an administration that doesn't respect the law is a bit like a "No guns allowed" sign in a US elementary school.
We need more than legal.
They really don't understand how conservative media works. These are effectively indictments and admissions of guilt and conspiracy to any conservative pundit the last four fucking decades.
And nevertheless still necessary to help protect these individuals from violent, institutional political persecution.
Until we start relentlessly clearing government and society of authoritarians, paper-thin protections like this are all we have, and we are ever likely to have again.
They know conservative media, this was going to happen regardless of the pardon but at least now there is a massive precedential hurdle in the way of actual prosecution. Investigate away, it won't come to anything because it can't.
Its to protect them from the projection trump and republicans do which would be weaponizing indictments. Which they had already kinda started with fauci. People talk about them doing illegal things but they have so far managed to do everything technically above board. Trump obviously looked to bribe a foreign power for personal gain but the legal process did not give him a penalty. There is no process that I know of to bypass a pardon like you can simply not penalize an impeachment.