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So, will all of the "protesters" ie domestic terrorists, receive pardons? (Original Post) diva77 Jan 2021 OP
Not if the current occupant is immediately impeached. NoRoadUntravelled Jan 2021 #1
K&R! Backseat Driver Jan 2021 #2
Trump has 2 weeks. I don't know if he would have to have their names. Patterson Jan 2021 #3
interesting point diva77 Jan 2021 #4
Good question. Carter's clemency for the Vietnam draftees in Canada might give some idea. Gidney N Cloyd Jan 2021 #5
Of course, taken to an extreme, an unlimited pardon power becomes a license to kill... TomCADem Jan 2021 #6
exactly diva77 Jan 2021 #7

NoRoadUntravelled

(2,626 posts)
1. Not if the current occupant is immediately impeached.
Wed Jan 6, 2021, 04:36 PM
Jan 2021

It's time to show the world that we abide by the Rule of Law. The statement, "No one is above the law" is in danger of becoming a trite phrase of the past unless it is acted upon.
We are either who and what we say we are or we are living a fantasy.

TomCADem

(17,387 posts)
6. Of course, taken to an extreme, an unlimited pardon power becomes a license to kill...
Wed Jan 6, 2021, 05:00 PM
Jan 2021

...yet, Republicans refused to convict Trump before, which just emboldened him.

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