PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net · 15 days agoIn his final weeks, Biden aims to cut off funding for oil and gas projects abroadgrist.orgexternal-linkmessage-square16fedilinkarrow-up1227arrow-down12
arrow-up1225arrow-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 · 15 days agomessage-square16fedilink
minus-squareAlecSadler@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up16·14 days agoCan he pardon Luigi while he’s at it? Seriously, what does he have to lose.
minus-squaresilence7@slrpnk.netMlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·14 days 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-up5·14 days agoCan someone be pardoned before they are tried?
minus-squareStinkySocialist@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·14 days 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-down1·14 days agoHunter had already been tried and convicted. He was set to be sentenced this month until Biden pardoned him.
minus-squareStinkySocialist@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·14 days agoAh didn’t know that. No clue than 🤷
minus-squareLorIps@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·14 days 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
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.
Yes