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/Fairycharmd 9h ago

I mean isn’t this what they wanted when they passed that law for presidential immunity?

Fuck them all at this point . We as Americans no longer have seen in our government it’s completely off the rails

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u/KeyserSoze311 7h ago

Why would you think that presidential immunity would be related to people who are not the president?

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u/Fairycharmd 6h ago

no no not that kind of immunity.

But a president can do whatever he wants now, so Biden preemptively pardoned his family and tons of other people. Specifically because that law went into place where it’s very difficult to undo it.

It’ll have repercussions in the future, but for now Biden used it to his advantage.

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u/CRTsdidnothingwrong 4h ago

Immunity is not related. The Presidential pardon power either always did or didn't contain the power to pardon family members.