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Bluesky Social is a microblogging social platform being developed in conjunction with the decentralized AT Protocol. Previously invite-only, the flagship Beta app went public in February 2024. All are welcome!

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There is already a controversy in the House, now all that is missing is a controversy in the Senate (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by Loduz_247@lemmy.world to c/peoplebluesky@lemmy.world

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[–] Trebuchet@lemm.ee 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

DC police are federal, i think, so you can see how this ends

[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 8 points 6 months ago

Briefly looking at the wiki article, it looks like it's more complicated than that. The president does have pardon power there, but not all crime in DC is a federal crime. There's a lot of fiddly bits where for many purposes DC acts like a state as well as a city.