Wurzl@lemmy.zip to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoUS Government Official refuses to answer basic questioncdn.imgchest.comvideomessage-square51linkfedilinkarrow-up1534arrow-down10
arrow-up1534arrow-down1videoUS Government Official refuses to answer basic questioncdn.imgchest.comWurzl@lemmy.zip to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square51linkfedilink
minus-squareArancello@aussie.zonecakelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up47·1 month agoHe knows he’ll get confirmed anyway and whatever he does he’ll get a presidential pardon.
minus-squareTreczoks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 month agoNot necessarily. A president can pardon someone who was legally convicted. He can’t bottle a pardon for later. So if after Trump the big cleanup will come, they all will have to face consequences, until some idiot later president will pardon them.
minus-squareWataba@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 month agoAfter Trump will be more regressive autocrats because America was spineless in 2024.
minus-squareBarneyPiccolo@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 month agoOf course they can. Nixon wasn’t convicted, or even charged, yet Ford pardoned him.
minus-squarewolfpack86@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month agoVietnam draft dodgers were pardoned without charges or convictions.
He knows he’ll get confirmed anyway and whatever he does he’ll get a presidential pardon.
Not necessarily. A president can pardon someone who was legally convicted. He can’t bottle a pardon for later.
So if after Trump the big cleanup will come, they all will have to face consequences, until some idiot later president will pardon them.
After Trump will be more regressive autocrats because America was spineless in 2024.
Of course they can. Nixon wasn’t convicted, or even charged, yet Ford pardoned him.
Vietnam draft dodgers were pardoned without charges or convictions.