• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        The only good news is that he can’t pardon himself from state crimes and the Georgia criminal trial is on the state level.

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          he can’t pardon himself

          Anytime I hear someone say Trump can’t do something, I want to wave my hands in the air and point to everything.

          Trump will pardon himself because he has no shame, and the people in charge of pointing out that he can’t pardon himself will do fuckall, just like every single person with any repsonsibility has done fuckall the stop Trump from doing anything for the past 8 years.

          There have been thousands of chances to prevent Trump from doing A, B, C, D, E, F, G, etc. And every. single. person. has done nothing at all to stop him. He truly is above the law.

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              I’ve heard that its likely the case will get taken from its current prosecutor and handed to a state legal board that leans conservative and that there’s a number of ways to do that. At best delaying the case for years and at worst dropping it entirely.

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          There’s a difference between power and authority.

          Authority is what the law allows you to do.

          Power is what the electorate allows you to do.

          A President may not have the authority to pardon himself, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t have the power to do so. Laws are only as good as what the citizens will tolerate.

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      Omg yes, this. Garland did Jack Shit for 2 years until Jack Smith got called in to start actually doing something, due to mounting public pressure. Merrick is a picture perfect representation of weak sauce Dems - pathetic. And now he says “hurry up”. Ducking infuriating dude.

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      Right, we’re getting to the point where the Biden admin is playing right into his hands. If this goes through at those point, they are already primed to cry foul.

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        He was going to cry foul no matter what. He will always cry foul. He’s a whiner and a loser and he’s going to complain no matter the situation if it doesn’t go his way.