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RockRaven

(17,625 posts)
8. If TCF is going to abuse people with a corrupted DOJ/FBI then a pardon won't
Mon Dec 2, 2024, 02:27 PM
Dec 2024

prevent any of that but the last step, the trial. If the DOJ/FBI really are going to be corrupted and politicized then they will still engage in unjustified investigations, leaks and smears, demand documents and interviews, cause massive legal expenses, etc.

The pardon only becomes specifically useful once they land in a courtroom. Everything which the DOJ/FBI does up to that point they can also do to a person who has been pardoned, under the guise that they have useful information about other peoples' crimes.

Pardons aren't a magical blanket protection from the DOJ/FBI -- not without norms and procedures to make them so, and norms and procedures can be changed.

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Also Fauci and a bunch of others JohnSJ Dec 2024 #1
If Gaetz were AG, he would definitely prosecute Fauci. sop Dec 2024 #4
I wonder what Fauci's "offense" would be FakeNoose Dec 2024 #5
Making Matt (and Jordan) look like a complete asshole during those congressional hearings. sop Dec 2024 #6
Tho it wrote a hate book about Dr. Fauci which caused him to have to get JohnSJ Dec 2024 #9
facts Nikki28 Dec 2024 #2
He should pardon everybody on Trump's enemies list. Ocelot II Dec 2024 #3
Yep. Go Joe!! kerry-is-my-prez Dec 2024 #17
At a minimum Biden should pardon everyone on the impeachment teams, the J6 committee, and the criminal cases dalton99a Dec 2024 #7
Agree. Especially all those listed on the SC teams in the ancianita Dec 2024 #14
If TCF is going to abuse people with a corrupted DOJ/FBI then a pardon won't RockRaven Dec 2024 #8
Biden should arm every Democrat and Democrat leaning person before he leaves office. hadEnuf Dec 2024 #10
I don't think a pre-emptive pardon is a thing Diraven Dec 2024 #11
Jack Smith is a sitting target - his entire family is being threatened FakeNoose Dec 2024 #12
It probably osn't a thing under the Constitution, soldierant Dec 2024 #13
Ford did it for Nixon Rstrstx Dec 2024 #15
Kind of Diraven Dec 2024 #16
It isn't necessary for there to be charges first. Ocelot II Dec 2024 #18
Thanks for Rebl2 Dec 2024 #19
Just because Ford wrote that in the pardon Diraven Dec 2024 #20
A pardon carries with it the acknowledgment that the recipient committed a crime Martin Eden Dec 2024 #21
Not anymore. Not under a trump regime. Paladin Dec 2024 #22
In politics, perception is reality Martin Eden Dec 2024 #23
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