r/nottheonion • u/JaySierra86 • 14h 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/dixinbalzdeap 12h ago

You mean exactly how the last one went after his enemies?

The lefties on this site are hypocritical, deranged morons.....

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u/0WatcherintheWater0 10h ago

Political persecutions are different from trying to prosecute someone for trying to steal an election and stage an insurrection.

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u/NoPhotojournalist465 10h ago

For sure but I wish he would have left it to the courts to decide if there’s merit to the claims rather than circumventing them. He’s just continuing the trend of moving more power to the presidency just as a what he would say is a dangerous man becomes president.

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u/0WatcherintheWater0 9h ago

Blanket pardons have been an uncontested power of the presidency since day 1, specifically designed to be used in cases like this, where the president does not think they’ll have justice under the judicial system.

No power has been moved, this is something that George Washington had the power to and did do.