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minus-squareMisterFrog@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up28arrow-down1·21 hours agoPresidential pardons are one of the dumbest powers. Change my mind. (Plenty of more stable countries get on fine without it, and don’t have to deal with this nonsense to boot)
minus-squaremadcaesar@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up23·21 hours agoPeople lose their shit over jury nullification, yet somehow pardons are A-OK Pardons should not be a thing, in my lifetime its pretty much only been used for scummy shit.
minus-squaremoakley@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·41 minutes agoDidn’t Biden pardon everyone who was arrested for marijuana possession?
minus-squareqevlarr@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-26 hours agoChelsea Manning tho. Only non-scummy instance I can think of right now
minus-squaretehmics@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·18 hours agoShout outs to pardoning Ross Ulbricht, while blaming Canada for fent
Presidential pardons are one of the dumbest powers. Change my mind.
(Plenty of more stable countries get on fine without it, and don’t have to deal with this nonsense to boot)
People lose their shit over jury nullification, yet somehow pardons are A-OK
Pardons should not be a thing, in my lifetime its pretty much only been used for scummy shit.
Didn’t Biden pardon everyone who was arrested for marijuana possession?
Chelsea Manning tho. Only non-scummy instance I can think of right now
Shout outs to pardoning Ross Ulbricht, while blaming Canada for fent