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No further info in the article as it’s breaking news. NBC broke into the inauguration to announce it.
Biden pardoned his entire family and their spouses as Trump directly threatened all of them.
Giving his family the last train car out of germany before the third reich shuts down the border.
Yeah sure, poor Hunter Biden is totally persecuted like the Jews and other minorities in Nazi Germany…
It’s not that he WAS treated that way, it’s that the Trump camp desperately WANTS to treat him that way. That’s why they all need the protection.
If the comparison to Nazi Germany would not be far stretched currently, then all these people would have left the country by now. A pardon by Biden would not provide any protection.
Of course fascism is a process and i dont want to exclude that it can develop towards that. This can also happen faster than anticipated at first.
But if the Democrats would have seriously believed in things to get this way, they would have acted very differently before and especially now after the election. Or they only cared about a fascist threat to the extent that they hoped to mobilize voters by it, but they aren’t really opposed to it. For me this makes the most sense as capitalist oligarchs historically always were open to fascism.
They may want do just that. Do anyone believe Trump will honor these pardons. Also are they even valid if they haven’t been charged with a crime.
It’s not about whether or not he honors them. The effectiveness of those preemptive pardons can be adjudicated by the SC. But there’s a couple of considerations on that front:
But also:
TL;DR: who fuckin knows at this point
Their validity has never been constitutionally challenged. It’s not really been done much in the past, the notable example being Nixon and no one challenged that.
Accepting the pardon actually requires admitting to the crime. So yes, the pardon is valid because the person has to go “yes I did this thing, and accept that I’m being pardoned for it.” You can’t selectively accept only the latter half of the pardon. And that admission and subsequent pardon means the state can’t charge them in the future, because they already admitted to it and were pardoned for it despite that admission of guilt.
But to your earlier point, there’s not much stopping Trump from trying to go after them anyways; The SCOTUS certainly won’t get in his way.
There’s also some period between issuing the pardon and accepting it where a pardon can be rescinded. I would think Biden already had all these people accept their pardons in advance though…