Posted on 12/04/2024 6:03:36 AM PST by Red Badger
Trump-appointed Judge Mark C. Scarsi ripped into President Joe Biden’s decision to pardon his son Hunter Biden on Tuesday in a filing, saying that while the president has broad authority, he cannot “rewrite history.”
Biden released a statement Sunday evening announcing his pardon of Hunter Biden’s cases, claiming that any “reasonable” person reviewing the facts in the case would conclude that his son was being targeted because of his connection to the president. In a filing on Tuesday evening, Scarsi, who presided over Hunter’s federal tax case in California, criticized the president for misrepresenting the facts in his statement.
“According to the President, ‘[n]o reasonable person who looks at the facts of [Mr. Biden’s] cases can reach any other conclusion than [Mr. Biden] was singled out only because he is [the President’s] son.’ But two federal judges expressly rejected Mr. Biden’s arguments that the Government prosecuted Mr. Biden because of his familial relation to the President,” Scarsi wrote.
“And the President’s own Attorney General and Department of Justice personnel oversaw the investigation leading to the charges. In the President’s estimation, this legion of federal civil servants, the undersigned included, are unreasonable people,” Scarsi said. “In short, a press release is not a pardon. The Constitution provides the President with broad authority to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, U.S. Const. art. II, § 2, cl. 1, but nowhere does the Constitution give the President the authority to rewrite history.”
In September, Hunter pleaded guilty to federal tax charges in his California case after he allegedly failed to pay an estimated $1.4 million in taxes and filed falsified tax paperwork. While Scarsi had initially accepted the plea and scheduled Hunter’s sentencing for Dec. 16, he stated in his recent ruling that he would vacate the sentencing hearing but would not terminate the case until the pardon is formally signed by Biden.
Since Biden’s announcement to pardon his son, the president has faced major backlash from pundits and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle due to his and his staff’s repeated denials that he would pardon Hunter.
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Astute Judge Mark C. Scarsi ripped into Biden’s decision to pardon Hunter,
saying that while a president has broad authority, he cannot “rewrite history.”
Biden foolishly claimed that any “reasonable” person would conclude that his son was being targeted because of his connection to the president. Scarsi, who presided over Hunter’s federal tax evasion case in California, criticized the president for misrepresenting the facts in his statement. “According to the President, ‘no reasonable person who looks at the facts can reach any other conclusion than [Mr. Biden] was singled out only because he is [the President’s] son.’
But two federal judges had already expressly rejected Mr. Biden’s arguments, Scarsi wrote. “And the President’s own Attorney General and Department of Justice personnel oversaw the investigation leading to the charges. In the President’s estimation, this legion of federal civil servants, the undersigned included, are unreasonable people,” Scarsi said.
“The Constitution provides the President with broad authority to grant reprieves and pardons but nowhere does the Constitution give the President the authority to rewrite history.”
“was singled out only because he is...connected to the den of thieves known as The Biden Crime Family, in which the biggest thief is the President himself.
Biden isn’t rewriting history. He’s using his position in the Federal Government to direct/impose a final legal conclusion (while, as an extra added bonus, offering his biased opinion about history).
These judges are having a fit over Biden ripping apart the charade of federal justice and thereby empowering Trump.
does the President even have to give a reason for a pardon ?
Judges don’t like being told that their opinions are not as important as they think they are, or do not hold as much sway as they think they do. So they squeal like stuck pigs when so told!
Yet, he made some crucial points.
Biden did so rewrite history.....but he’s too stupid to know it.
No!!!
But Biden is like other progressives, obsessive and desperate about hanging on to their echo-chamber-sustained beliefs about their relative importance, and occupation of the moral high ground.
In the meantime the two judges in question will probably show up in one of that Aussie news lady’s periodic “Lefties Losing It” segments.
In a sense, yes, he’s rewriting an unwritten history published in his own cobweb-infested mind. Nowhere else though.
Jill & the Cabal are behind this pardon.
Probably not.
Frankly judges should only give their opinion when it is matched with a legal holding that (at least as of the moment that opinion is uttered) imposes a corresponding result.
Otherwise they are wasting ink and paper (or, today, digital bits and bytes).
These judges were rendered irrelevant and are losing it, Lefty Style.
There are “no reasonable”people in the US legal system? The head of The Biden Crime Family says so. The Crime Family remains free.
Calm down people.
What pig face Bidet did was deny his FF son 5th amendment rights.
That is exactly what he did AND, he and his crew are stupid enough to not know it.
He will pardon himself next.
DOJ Office of the Pardon Attorney——little known pardon facts.
Expungement of the pardoned crimes is a judicial remedy that is rarely granted
by the court and cannot be granted within the Department of Justice or by the President.
Those granted a presidential pardon, should know the pardoned
offense would not be removed from your criminal record.
Instead, both the federal conviction as well as the pardon would both appear on your record.
However, a pardon will facilitate removal of legal disabilities imposed because of the conviction.
“He will pardon himself next.”
Darned if he won’t do just that!
And probably pardon dozens or even hundreds of other faithful political hack underlings who have done the bidding of the Deep State over the past sixteen years since he and Obama took over the federal executive branch in January 2009.
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