Pardon who? Hunter Biden case renews ethical debate over use and limits of peculiar presidential power
Pardon who? Hunter Biden case renews ethical debate over use and limits of peculiar presidential power
Despite the controversy surrounding them, presidential pardons can provide a service ā the question is how they are used.
The decision by President Joe Biden to pardon his son, Hunter, despite previously suggesting he would not do so, has reopened debate over the use of the presidential pardon.
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Trump: Filling his cabinet with conflicted individuals and loyalists, many of whom have had legal troubles and been pardoned by him.
Biden: Pardons a family member who has never held government office for a drug-related offence.
And which story dominates the news cycle? The media is more than complicit in the resurgence of fascism in this country.
Thing that's been dominating the news cycle for weeks is momentarily less dominant than thing that happened just yesterday.
Must be because people are so unfair to that troubled youth who just needed help, Hunter Biden. Has nothing to do with Joe Biden promising to use presidential powers to pardon the indigent, disproportionately-black group of people who went to jail for possessing weed and instead using the powers specifically for his 54 year old millionaire son.
Biden already pardoned everyone convicted of possessing weed. The only "non-violent" cannabis offenders in federal prison are dealers.
Just this year there have been 200,000 weed related arrests, and thousands imprisoned because simple possession is still illegal in lots of the US.
And how many of those are federal arrests not state arrests?
Federal or state/local?
You could simply google it instead of asking and waiting for me to google it for you yknow.
No you made the claim now it is your burden to source and prove it. Generally and federally not much is happening with weed even on the arrest side as we wait to try to decriminalize it. You can't pardon state crimes.
This isn't a court of law and they weren't the person who I made the claim to. They can google it.
LOL, like any of these papers give a fuck about pardoning weed prisoners. You're right that he should be pardoning more people, but the "debate" and "controversy" is entirely separate from that.
These papers care about him promising not to do it then doing it anyways - that's also part of the controversy.
A promise about an irrelevant thing is similarly irrelevant. This isn't pushing the bounds for presidential pardons or going to influence the future of politics or law enforcement at all. The media is deeply concerned about a trivial act that's both 100x less serious than the lies and pardons of his predecessor, those of past Democratic presidents, and his own prior deceptions and actions. It's centrist media clutching pearls for the precious "norms" and "optics" while everyone knows Trump has and will do worse in this very same department and that Biden himself has grave failures they're completely uninterested in. They want to pretend they're hard-nosed watchdogs of Both Sides without actually engaging in any truth-seeking that might upset people who will still hold power past January.
The media is more than complicit in the resurgence of fascism in this country.
YUP.