honestly the ‘pardon’ ability needs to go away completely. maybe it made sense before, and/or wasnt abused, but now it just seems prepped to be a tool to release your fellow felons in crime.
Clemency is a useful tool, it just needs reform. Some states require it to go through a committee rather than just handing the power to a single official. There are probably other ways to curtail abuse as well.
The point of being able to issue pardons is that Biden should have been pardoning everyone who’s in prison for smoking weed. Too bad Biden’s a little bitch who won’t use the office of president to do much good.
honestly the ‘pardon’ ability needs to go away completely. maybe it made sense before, and/or wasnt abused, but now it just seems prepped to be a tool to release your fellow felons in crime.
Clemency is a useful tool, it just needs reform. Some states require it to go through a committee rather than just handing the power to a single official. There are probably other ways to curtail abuse as well.
That’s only if criminals are elected. Biden used the pardon in 2022 and 2023 to pardon many minor weed related offenses.
It’s still insane that politicians are involved AT ALL in the justice system.
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They can be useful for things like spy exchanges, but I do agree the system as it exists is ripe for abuse
It’s cool if it is a bullshit crime. Like smoking a joint, pardon everyone convicted of that.
The point of being able to issue pardons is that Biden should have been pardoning everyone who’s in prison for smoking weed. Too bad Biden’s a little bitch who won’t use the office of president to do much good.
Vote for him tho