PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net · 2 months agoIn his final weeks, Biden aims to cut off funding for oil and gas projects abroadgrist.orgexternal-linkmessage-square16fedilinkarrow-up1224arrow-down12
arrow-up1222arrow-down1external-linkIn his final weeks, Biden aims to cut off funding for oil and gas projects abroadgrist.orgPhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net · 2 months agomessage-square16fedilink
minus-squareAlecSadlerlinkfedilinkarrow-up16·2 months agoCan he pardon Luigi while he’s at it? Seriously, what does he have to lose.
minus-squaresilence7@slrpnk.netMlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·2 months agoOnly for relatively minor gun offenses — the murder charge is a state law violation, and the President can’t pardon those.
minus-squareKacarott@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 months agoCan someone be pardoned before they are tried?
minus-squareStinkySocialist@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoI mean he just pardoned his son that way right? I don’t think Hunter had been tried for anything.
minus-squarePhilipTheBucket@ponder.catOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·2 months agoHunter had already been tried and convicted. He was set to be sentenced this month until Biden pardoned him.
minus-squareStinkySocialist@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoAh didn’t know that. No clue than 🤷
minus-squareLorIps@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoHe’d been tried and convicted, only sentencing was missing.
Can he pardon Luigi while he’s at it? Seriously, what does he have to lose.
Only for relatively minor gun offenses — the murder charge is a state law violation, and the President can’t pardon those.
But he can try?
Can someone be pardoned before they are tried?
They do that to the turkey
Yes
I mean he just pardoned his son that way right? I don’t think Hunter had been tried for anything.
Hunter had already been tried and convicted. He was set to be sentenced this month until Biden pardoned him.
Ah didn’t know that. No clue than 🤷
He’d been tried and convicted, only sentencing was missing.