The White House says it is the highest number of presidential acts of clemency in a single day.
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That’s a lot of MBNA executives!
Why is presential pardon a thing ?
It’s supposed to be a check on the judicial system.
This is a perfect use of it:
In October 2022, Biden issued a full pardon for those who had been convicted of simple possession of marijuana, and later expanded that to include other marijuana-related offenses.
That’s a patch on a non functional system. ‘duckt tape is check on unexpected loss of hull integrity’.
Funny enough integrity is the operative word here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiskey_Rebellion
The American Revolution was a bourgeois one which didn’t benefit the yeoman farmer. This working class one sparked up immediately when the federal government was still very weak and trying to tax a subsistence commodity. The leaders were pardoned to prevent a larger rebellion from breaking out over their execution. Prior to that the pardon power was supposed to be an act of congress.
That settles it - Im voting for Biden!
