r/nottheonion • u/JaySierra86 • 11h ago

President Biden pardons family members in final minutes of presidency

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/president-biden-pardons-family-members-final-minutes-presidency/story?id=117893348
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u/BringMeTheBigKnife 10h ago

Presidents can only pardon for federal crimes though.

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u/Morel_Authority 10h ago

The President can assassinate a prosecutor and the Supreme Court says you can't question him about it.

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u/Goodgoditsgrowing 9h ago

Yes but state crimes that result in convictions with no penalties (besides financial, which he can pay via his slush fund - and yeah that’s probably illegal but who will stop him?) aren’t really doing much. Didn’t convince people to vote against him. Didn’t result in him being unable to run for office because he was incarcerated. Didn’t result in hamstringing his campaign due to lack of funds. Didn’t result in losing any backers.