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Ramsey Barner

(349 posts) Sat Feb 9, 2019, 05:52 PM Feb 2019

Whitaker is aware of pardons relating to individuals

Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-Texas) asks a great question, and Whitaker indicates that he's been handling pardons:

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Whitaker is aware of pardons relating to individuals (Original Post) Ramsey Barner Feb 2019 OP

It seems to me that if Trump pardons his co-conspirators Turbineguy Feb 2019 #1

Too bad pardoning co conspirators is obstructing justice. nt UniteFightBack Feb 2019 #2

There was a rumor this week, that the secretary of the cbdo2007 Feb 2019 #3

Turbineguy

(37,324 posts)

1. It seems to me that if Trump pardons his co-conspirators

Reply to Ramsey Barner (Original post)

Sat Feb 9, 2019, 07:22 PM

Feb 2019

the right wing who so fervently believe that the nation should be run as the Founding Fathers envisioned, would rise up en masse!

Or is that just the half of the 2nd Amendment part.

UniteFightBack

(8,231 posts)

2. Too bad pardoning co conspirators is obstructing justice. nt

Reply to Ramsey Barner (Original post)

Sat Feb 9, 2019, 07:24 PM

Feb 2019

cbdo2007

(9,213 posts)

3. There was a rumor this week, that the secretary of the

Reply to Ramsey Barner (Original post)

Sat Feb 9, 2019, 09:35 PM

Feb 2019

Supreme Court delivered notice to the White House that Trump cannot pardon people in cases where he is a co-conspirator.

Normally I would brush that off, but this seems to confirm that he has asked for pardons and has been rejected.

Hoping that all is true. We certainly haven't seen any pardons carried out, so if he has asked for them he didn't get them.

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