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We are going to bring law and order back to our cities,
he said in a reference to crime-ridden urban areas that have declined under Biden This is not the way the rule of law works,
the D.C. media outlet said After his inauguration, President Donald Trump ended the day by giving clemency to everyone who had tried to keep him in power at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, including those who had been convicted of seditious conspiracy,
President Joe Biden started the trouble by issuing preemptive pardons for five family members as well as former members of his administration,
The outgoing and incoming presidents both abused their pardon powers on Monday, undermining the rule of law and setting dangerous precedents that perpetuate America’s divisions, ... Pardons from Biden and Trump flout the rule of law."
The Washington Post editorial board wrote on Tuesday in an article headlined It is also true that prosecutors can harass people without bringing charges, forcing them to incur significant legal costs,
What Trump is saying to the world is that it is okay for you to attack police officers when you have a mind to do that,
It has nothing to do with what Trump did today.”
While Sanders left the door open to let others decide whether Biden was right or wrong to pardon his family members, he asserted If you committed violence on that day, obviously, you shouldn’t be pardoned.”
This will have powerful future consequences for normalizing political violence, because many of those he has granted clemency to are an ongoing threat for political violence in the future,
As many supporters of President Trump recognize, for a president who ran on combating crime and reestablishing law and order to pardon hundreds convicted of assaulting law enforcement and otherwise engaging in violence would be hypocritical and dangerous,
a press release about the poll said Weak people wanted hyper-sanitized action for the J6 hostages,
said Charlie Kirk, the leader of rightwing youth group Turning Point This is going beyond rewriting what January 6 was,
said Robert Pape, the director of the Chicago Project on Security and Threats at the University of Chicago who has studied January 6 defendants I was floored that Joe Biden pardoned his whole family and let me tell you why. The most charitable interpretation is the Titanic is sinking, I’ve got a life raft for my family, but anyone else who challenged Trump, you better swim, or you’re drowning,
she said, describing what she said was her most "charitable interpretation" of the decision, which was criticized by members of the media Joe Biden's family and the people he pardoned on the Jan. 6 committee have not actually committed crimes, he is trying to prevent them from spending the rest of their lives fighting the government, which is no easy feat,
It sets a very dangerous precedent. Now Donald Trump can basically advise staff and his family to do anything unlawful and then just issue a blanket pardon when he leaves office. I think it was disgraceful and I think it's going to harm his legacy,
If I could protect me and mine, I would do that, and so I think we need to show Biden some grace,
It was perhaps a constitutional mistake to give the president this one unchecked, unilateral power,
said Mark Rozell, a George Mason University expert on presidential power The recent precedents are disturbing, ... and will be seen by some future presidents as a license to pardon friends, family, cronies without any consequence other than history’s judgment.”
The pardons by outgoing President Biden and incoming President Trump yesterday signal a dangerous new era in pardoning,
said Bernadette Meyler, a constitutional law expert at Stanford University
