Former President Joe Biden experienced such “cognitive decline” while in office that it remains a serious question as to whether he was aware of the substance of the various pardons and commutations signed in his name via autopen, the GOP-controlled House Oversight Committee asserted in a letter it sent to Attorney General Pam Bondi, urging her to consider whether that clemency might be invalid and to take action for potential prosecution against some of Biden’s aides.

The committee “deems void President Biden’s executive actions that were signed using the Autopen, and the committee determines that action by the Department of Justice is warranted to address the legal consequences of that determination,” it wrote to Bondi released Tuesday morning.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    You can’t pick and choose the things,

    That is definitely not true in America where:

    Our riminal justice system is overwhelmingly a system of pleas. Statistics consistently show that about 95-98% of federal convictions and 94-95% of state convictions result from guilty pleas, often through plea bargains. The Supreme Court acknowledged this reality in Missouri v. Frye, stating that our system “is for the most part a system of pleas, not a system of trials.”

    https://govfacts.org/explainer/plea-bargain-vs-trial-navigating-the-crossroads-of-justice/

    People almost exclusively are having their crimes “picked and chosen”.

    That’s the entire basis of modern justice system.

    You pull over a speeder and find a joint, the cop can just let it go. The prosecutor could decide to drop it. Multiple people at every step “pick and choose” before and after charges are filed…