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[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 27 points 3 days ago (3 children)

State charges are not able to be presidentially pardoned, although if it's a red state the governor may just do it to capitulate.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This may surprise people, but politicians do not have the right to pardon people in most countries.

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 9 points 2 days ago

The way it should be

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The woman already got released.

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Figures. Yet people are doing twice as much time with no eligibility for early release for fucking weed.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Less people after Biden pardoned hundreds of them.

[–] bigfondue@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

We really have a stupid system don't we