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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo, will all of the "protesters" ie domestic terrorists, receive pardons?
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So, will all of the "protesters" ie domestic terrorists, receive pardons? (Original Post)
diva77
Jan 2021
OP
Good question. Carter's clemency for the Vietnam draftees in Canada might give some idea.
Gidney N Cloyd
Jan 2021
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NoRoadUntravelled
(2,626 posts)1. Not if the current occupant is immediately impeached.
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.
Backseat Driver
(4,390 posts)2. K&R!
Patterson
(1,529 posts)3. Trump has 2 weeks. I don't know if he would have to have their names.
diva77
(7,640 posts)4. interesting point
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,833 posts)5. Good question. Carter's clemency for the Vietnam draftees in Canada might give some idea.
TomCADem
(17,387 posts)6. Of course, taken to an extreme, an unlimited pardon power becomes a license to kill...
...yet, Republicans refused to convict Trump before, which just emboldened him.