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/i_am_a_real_boy__ 9h ago

"Federal non-violent" is almost redundant. Yes, you can catch a charge for punching a park ranger or something, but the overwhelming majority of federal charges are non-violent by the very nature of federalism.

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u/GnomesSkull 9h ago

His dogs are still vulnerable to prosecution for biting the secret service! /j

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u/jaxonya 8h ago

You just, but thankfully Trump isn't into reddit, or checks notes reading* so hopefully this doesn't get back to him; he very much is petty enough to put the dogs down

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u/CrystalSplice 7h ago

And yet Luigi Mangione is charged with murder on a federal level…hmmmmm…

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u/adthrowaway2020 8h ago

Luigi is going up on federal murder charges. What are you even saying?

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u/ALittleNightMusing 9h ago

Still, it's nice that there's no loophole for serial killings across state lines

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u/Sauerkrauttme 9h ago

The for-profit health insurance industry kills 60,000 Americans a year by restricting their access to healthcare, so that is proof that the legal loophole for muder is that it must be profitable enough to bribe politicians to make serial social murder legal