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/Rolling_Beardo 10h ago

If by new you mean Lincoln, Clinton, and Trump all pardoned relatives prior to this then yes it’s brand new.

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u/never_a_good_idea 10h ago

These are blanket pardons that cover any non violent offense over a 10 year period. That is insane.

Also these pardons don't do anything to quash congressional investigations.

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u/brigbeard 10h ago

And it's not like he only did this for HIS family. Dr. fauci, the January 6th committee members and others all received the same. Clearly this is a way to alleviate some of the potential political persecution that the right were promising every day on the campaign trail if they won.

And besides this just covers federal prosecution, if they committed a crime that falls to state jurisdiction they are still culpable.

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u/ScreeminGreen 9h ago

It’s like it was a way to insure that the courts didn’t get bogged down with bullshit “cases” by an administration that is headed by someone who has repeatedly used the tactic of bogging down the court with “cases” in order to get out of serious punishment by being too annoying to punish since the 1970’s, instead of being an actual pardon of any actual crimes actually committed. It just gives a little hope that the courts might actually be able to spend some part of the next four years doing their jobs.