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[–] FatVegan@leminal.space 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ah don't worry, they'll get a pardon for heroic acts of anti wokeness or something

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 29 points 1 day ago (3 children)

State charges are not able to be presidentially pardoned, although if it's a red state the governor may just do it to capitulate.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This may surprise people, but politicians do not have the right to pardon people in most countries.

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 10 points 1 day ago

The way it should be

[–] bigfondue@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

We really have a stupid system don't we

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The woman already got released.

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Figures. Yet people are doing twice as much time with no eligibility for early release for fucking weed.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Less people after Biden pardoned hundreds of them.