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jsburbidge) wrote2024-11-16 09:17 pm
jsburbidge) wrote2024-11-16 09:17 pm
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One thing Biden could do...
... which Trump couldn't reverse:
Pardon everybody Trump has mentioned going after for personal or partisan reasons. (His relatives, Harris, Cheney, etc.).
There's precedent for broad pardons for "anything done under the term of ..." (more monarchical than Presidential, but there's continuity there).
Mist things a president can do by executive order can be reversed by another executive order. Pardons are not in that category.
Pardon everybody Trump has mentioned going after for personal or partisan reasons. (His relatives, Harris, Cheney, etc.).
There's precedent for broad pardons for "anything done under the term of ..." (more monarchical than Presidential, but there's continuity there).
Mist things a president can do by executive order can be reversed by another executive order. Pardons are not in that category.
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That assumes a domain-of-laws situation once Trump has been inaugurated.
I don't think that's what's going to happen.
Trump's attorney-general pick, in particular, strikes me as a strong signal that there will be no law, at least not for the made guys, which means there's no protection of law for anybody else.
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