Posted on 12/02/2024 1:14:47 AM PST by Libloather
President-elect Donald Trump hinted at mass pardons for defendants tied to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot – with his team vowing he would also overhaul the “Democrat-controlled” Department of Justice — a little more than an hour after President Biden pardoned his son Hunter Sunday night.
“Does the Pardon given by Joe to Hunter include the J-6 Hostages, who have now been imprisoned for years? Such an abuse and miscarriage of Justice!” Trump posted on Truth Social.
The 45th president, who won back the White House last month, floated pardons during his campaign for the more than 1,500 defendants either still facing trials or those already convicted for breaching the Capitol as Congress was voting to certify Biden’s 2020 election win over Trump.
Trump’s transition team earlier sent out a statement that blasted the Justice Department while vowing to fix the federal agency. It made no mention of Biden or his son.
“The failed witch hunts against President Trump have proven that the Democrat-controlled DOJ and other radical prosecutors are guilty of weaponizing the justice system,” Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung said in a statement.
“That system of justice must be fixed and due process must be restored for all Americans, which is exactly what President Trump will do as he returns to the White House with an overwhelming mandate from the American people.”
Hunter, 54, is now off the hook after he was scheduled to be sentenced on separate federal gun and tax evasion cases later this month.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Congressional Republicans rip Biden for about-face pardon of son Hunter: ‘So corrupt’
We always knew Joe Biden would pardon troubled son Hunter — fitting the president would break another promise to the American people
https://nypost.com/2024/12/01/opinion/we-always-knew-joe-biden-would-pardon-troubled-son-hunter/
And then may the lawsuits begin. Many of them were threatened or coerced into pleading guilty.
It’s not his son he pardoned, it’s himself, starting from his VP days of collecting money from foreign governments.
npr.org
June 28, 2024
Nina Totenberg
Supreme Court says prosecutors improperly charged some Jan. 6 defendants
The U.S. Supreme Court limited which defendants accused of taking part in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot can be charged by federal prosecutors for obstructing Congress. The court’s decision also places at least a cloud of doubt about two of the the four felony counts in the election subversion indictment of President Trump.
In an opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts, the court ruled that the government must establish “that the defendant impaired the availability or integrity for use in an official proceeding of records, documents, objects, or other things used in an official proceeding.”
Prosecutors used a key criminal statute to prosecute more than 350 of the most violent participants in the riot. The statute had two parts. The first part makes it a crime to corruptly alter or destroy documents and records related to an official proceeding. The second part makes it a crime to otherwise obstruct or impede an official proceeding—in this case, the congressional counting of the electoral college ballots.
The U.S. Supreme Court made it far more difficult for federal agencies to issue rules and regulations that carry out broad mandates enacted by Congress.
Law
Trump’s immunity arguments and the experiences of the justices who might support it
Roberts said the statute was limited to documents and evidence destruction, and that the word otherwise was not meant to broaden the meaning of the law into a catchall provision.
Writing for the court majority, Roberts said the statute was limited to documents and evidence destruction, and that the word otherwise was not meant to broaden the meaning of the law into a catchall provision.
In a concurring opinion, liberal justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote: Despite “the shocking circumstances involved in this case,” the “Court’s task is to determine what conduct is proscribed by the criminal statute that has been invoked as the basis for the obstruction charge at issue here.”
Justices Amy Coney Barrett joined Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan in dissent.
Justice Barrett — a Trump appointee — joined wrote that the provision in question “is a very broad provision, and admittedly, events like January 6th were not its target. (Who could blame Congress for that failure of imagination?) But statutes often go further than the problem that inspired them, and under the rules of statutory interpretation, we stick to the text anyway. The Court, abandoning that approach, does textual backflips to find some way—any way—to narrow” it.
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Yes, as they say it, their words, because he has 🎯“extraordinary power”
Go Trump-Vance....
*🎯 Extraordinary election
*🎯 Extraordinary voters
*🎯 Extraordinary family
*🎯 Extraordinary businesses
*🎯 Extraordinary power of The Presidency
BINGO!
Trump has already said it would be on a one by one basis. And that’s the right way to go.
1) Pardon the J6ers day-by-day, oldest (by age) first.
2) By ZIP code, so local TV stations can reach the largest audience with J6 interviews.
3) Pause those with unrelated felony-pasts/rapsheets—for last.
4) Depending on pending legal status, pardon Ray Epps first (or last).
Do it, Donald.
Nope. He and all the other fedsurrectionists need to go to jail.
“Trump has already said it would be on a one by one basis. And that’s the right way to go.”
I absolutely disagree. It was a criminally organized entrapment conspiracy. The charges are erroneous. The Capital and grounds are a National Park and public lands. The people own it not the government. The people are their landlords and grant permission for them to use it. It was criminal abuse of power and conspiracy. It is cruel and unusual punishment and denial of due process and a speedy trial. Based on these facts they should all be immediately released and those who conspired should be charged and incarcerated.
I expected Trump to pardon every J6 political prisoner anyway. But Biden’s latest stunt will make such a reprieve on Trump’s part *way* less “controversial.”
At this point I dont really care about the pardon. I’m fine with it. We all know the gun charges were not the real crime, but the ukraine and other foreign interest crimes.
So now we wont have to worry about the “drama” of punishing Hunter and all the nonsense that goes along with it. It’s water under the bridge now but at least we can let the dirty laundry air out in the open without all the legal-mumbo jumbo nonsense behind it distracting us from bringing America forward.
We all know the crimes were committed by Biden & co and we all know that no amount of real justice will ever be served against them for the destruction they wrought upon the USA, but now at least the truth can come to light hopefully and we can focus on the future of the USA and trying to fix the flaws that allowed this to happen in the first place.
We’ll just have to move on. It sucks but the deep state had the perfect alibi in senile Joe. Hunter will hopefully meet his end at the end of a crackpipe and the rest of the Biden family will fade away into oblivion.
The end result should be only two people in prison for life, Ray Epps and Michael Byrd!
“The end result should be only two people in prison for life, Ray Epps and Michael Byrd!”
I see a chance here to make Epps sing like a Canary. If he is not disappeared before they can make a deal.
No, there should not be mass pardons.
There were at least two groups of people in DC that day:
The one group, came only to attend Trump’s speech and show support. Those were the ones who were still at the Washington monument and beginning to disperse from there when the other group or groups who had not attended the speech made their moves.
The other group or groups weren’t interested in what Trump had to say and were already present at the Capitol while his speech was going on. There were organizers and agitators in this group who did have ill intent and it wasn’t to support Trump or the Constitution, it was to do harm to Trump’s cause, to our cause.
These were the window breakers and barricade movers, at least two of whom were in the employ of CNN and other media companies and one had ties to Antifa.
Another, who had used physical violence against the police, fled to Belarus, and became a propagandist for the Russians. No American just out of the blue runs to Belarus without having connections there, or a job waiting for him, so most likely that was an agent provocateur in the employ of a foreign government. And it is evident there were federal agents provocateur as well. If any of them smashed windows, punched cops, or moved barricades, they should be charged.
Clearly some people need some jail time, including any cops who lied in giving testimony, and it appears at least two lied about their locations and thus, what they saw, before the J6 committee ( and on behalf of Pelosi.)
So a big “NO” to mass blind pardons. We need to get to the bottom of how these events unfolded and pardoning everyone will only hamper any investigation into who the agents provoteur were and who they all worked for.
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