Trump to pardon women's suffrage leader Susan Anthony

[Mrs. Overall]

Source: AP

President Donald Trump said Tuesday he will pardon Susan B. Anthony, a leader in the women’s suffrage movement, who was arrested for voting in 1872 in violation of laws permitting only men to vote.

Anthony is best known for her role in the movement to secure voting rights for women, but she also was a strong anti-slavery and voting rights pioneer.

“She was never pardoned,” Trump said. “What took so long?” He said he would sign “a full and complete pardon later Tuesday.

Trump’s pardon comes 100 years after the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which ensured women the right to vote. It’s also known as the Susan B. Anthony Amendment. His move also comes amid an outcry over Postal Service disruptions that Democrats say endanger the voting rights of millions of Americans who would vote by mail in November amid the pandemic. Trump has denied asking for the mail to be delayed even as he leveled fresh criticism on mail-in voting.

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[C_U_L8R]

1. He said it's the least he could do.

[soothsayer]

2. The very least. He checked

[C Moon]

40. Ha ha!!!

[Javaman]

30. that should be the motto for his time in office...

"I only did the least I could do"

[PJMcK]

3. What a stupid man

That's all I've got this morning.

[Ohiogal]

4. So this was his big announcement?

[not fooled]

13. Unsurprisingly timed

the morning that Democratic women receive lots of good press for their speeches last night.

desperate donnie thinks this stunt will knock Michelle Obama from the headlines.

[fleur-de-lisa]

53. Going for the 'suburban housewife' vote?

Well, that changes everything! I'm voting for the Dumpster!

[Autumn]

5. That's the big pardon?

It's fucking YUGE!!!!!

[jrthin]

6. Eye roll. nt

[Lithos]

7. Except...

She violated State Laws as the State governs the Election laws, he can't pardon those. Stupid publicity stunt.

L-

[Miguelito Loveless]

8. Ummm... I somehow doubt that Anthony would accept a pardon if alive

since that would mean she accepted that she was guilty.

[not fooled]

14. And she would spit on red don

for being an undemocratic imbecile. And a rampant misogynist.

[Rebl2]

29. EXACTLY!

[unblock]

35. so the wrongly convicted who are exonerated by dna can't accept pardons without admitting guilt?

this is a common misconception based on what's surely dicta from burdick v. united states.

that case simply found that accepting a pardon and producing it in court had to be a voluntary act on the part of the recipient; the government couldn't force a pardon on someone in order to deprive them of their 5th amendment right not to testify against themselves.

in susan b. anthony's case, she certainly accepted that she had broken the law, but it was an unjust law she felt ought to be broken and repealed. she might well have refused a pardon anyway, if she felt that a continued prosecution would help the cause. but in practice, once a pardon is granted, prosecution efforts tend to slow down considerably....

[christx30]

58. A pardon is totally different from an exoneration

by DNA evidence.
A pardon says, “you certainly committed the crime, but due to circumstances, we’re going to say it’s ok.”
An exoneration says, “we totally screwed up in convicting you for the crime. That was our bad. You’re out of prison now.”
Some times a pardon would require admission of guilt, because the parties in power want you to at least feel some contrition for committing the crime.
Exoneration requires nothing of the sort, because you didn’t do anything.

[unblock]

61. Legally there's no such distinction.

Certainly most pardons are for people who actually are guilty, and for them, yes, presidents and governors usually insist on an admission of guilt and a display of contrition and remorse, essentially as part of the application process.

And presidents and governors likely would not ask for that in cases where they find the law unjust, the process unfair, or the person actually innocent.

But legally, a pardon is a pardon, whatever the reason.

In any event, I think we're agreeing that Susan b. Anthony would not have to admit guilt whether she accepted Donnie's pardon or not.

[Miguelito Loveless]

62. I would think she would view the conviction as a badge of honor

Just my opinion.

[unblock]

64. Quite likely

Interestingly, the conviction likely wouldn't have held up anyway because the judge directed the jury to find her guilty(!). Years later the Supreme Court finally said trial judges can't do that.

In practice, the judge fined her but said he wouldn't jail her if she didn't pay. So she never paid.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

9. A Token pardon.....

Susan B. Anthony wore Black every day as a reminder of the women who gave their lives for this country, their suffrage in not having the same rights as a man, and so much more.

[BlueStater]

10. A lameass stunt to capture some female votes.

Pathetic, transparent imbecile.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

19. You said it

[bucolic_frolic]

28. and show today's ineligible voters he has their back

Wonder if any mega$$$$$ Rethug households maintain multitudes of registered voters ... could be part time residents, non-existent registrations, deceased voters from other states .... to those who think this a crass line of thought, haven't Democrats been accused of some of these things for 75 years? well who has the $$$$$ to clone IDs ... perhaps even pay multiple taxes ... anyone ever investigated such imagination? asking because now is the time when society is dissolving, to ask ... seek and ye shall find? or all nonsense. I have no idea

[Paladin]

11. Fuck you dead, trump.

I can smell your flop sweat, all the over to here in Texas.

[Collimator]

54. I'm not a big one for cursing. . .

. . . But my response was similar. I could just imagine Susan B. Anthony, in her red shaw, telling Trump to fuck his pardon.

He is so pathetic. This morning, I told my BFF about seeing him engage in some of his self-indulgent drivel in front of the cameras and thinking--Putting aside all the truly awful things that he has done, I just want him gone because I am so sick of his whiny, self-absorbed verbal garbage. I have had it. I will not endure the distaste of his presence any longer.

[Paladin]

67. Our saving grace will be millions of people feeling as you do.

Me, very much included.

[beachbumbob]

12. lol, this is trumps/GOP's outreach effort for women voters? Its pretty laughable

[Grokenstein]

15. He'd eat his own foot raw before authorizing the Tubman Twenty

...but his groveling toadies searched long hours to find the most insignificant, irrelevant, overhyped "favor" he could possibly bestow upon a white woman in order to distract the nation from his crimes against it.

[JI7]

16. Fucking pathetic

[underpants]

17. I'd have bet a dollar it was going to be someone else

[Walleye]

18. I see what you did there

[marmar]

20. Even though he'd call her a "nasty" woman if she were alive today.

[JudyM]

50. ⬆️ The main thing reporters should ask him about it!

As well as, perhaps, how he believes restricting voting squares with his honoring her.

[wryter2000]

21. Okay, now I have to vote for him

Because women are stupid

[stillcool]

22. not a joke, not a dream. Why?

and so early in the day.

[wryter2000]

23. Just heard the announcement

People laughed

[George II]

24. I don't think there's a sensible woman in the country that won't think this is abject pandering....

....and take it more as an insult than a positive act.

[Doug.Goodall]

25. Is this the big headline pardon Trump has been touting for days?

Sounds more like a big distraction to me. This pathetic, lying, incompetent, unprepared, carnival barker makes a pardon 100 years after the fact. Every body can see through this sorry excuse for theater.

What is the administration trying to hide by throwing this announcement out?

[SharonClark]

26. What a meaningless and ineffective political move.

Anthony was a smart woman and would have seen right thru Trump’s attempt to co-opt the suffrage movement to his own crass ends.

Too bad she can’t denounce him, and the anti-choice repug women who use her name, from the grave.

[IronLionZion]

27. His deplorables would love to repeal the 19th amendment

along with a few others like the 13th and 14th

[mahannah]

31. "What took so long?" Where was he last year? Or the year before?

[klook]

32. Millions of dead white suburban women roar their approval,

reportedly. The living see right through this carnival barker.

[Bayard]

33. Is this the Onion? Borowitz?

Maybe this is what he meant by ballots being sent to dead people. I'm sure Benedict Arnold was his first choice.

Obviously, he thinks this will win him the suburban women vote back.

[crickets]

41. I immediately checked the link because I thought it was!

As if Susan B. Anthony really needed a pardon for anything, from anyone, least of all Needy Amin. It's an empty, condescending stunt.

[packman]

34. Susan's family (if any) should reject the "pardon"

Her arrest and its mark on history is a milestone . Don't need the orange pustulent to try to amend it , nor lessen it.

[greenjar_01]

36. This is pretty high levels of DERP even for that shitheel

Ooof.

[bucolic_frolic]

37. Confabulating himself with Statues of History

I mean, why not pardon Jack the Ripper? Trump lacks jurisdiction, lacks historical connection, but you must admit Jack was very good at his profession, horrible people on both sides aside.

[Canoe52]

38. That will get him the "suburban housewife" vote

Over 170,000 dead, the virus still blazing its way through America, and all he’s got is gimmicks to try and get re-elected. I smell Kushner all over this.

[mahannah]

39. I'm not going to the fucking White House. - Megan Rapinoe

[Botany]

42. How many women have accused Trump of sexual harassment? How many have accused him of rape?

How many underage girls has Trump had sex with? How many girls did Epstein and Maxwell
set him up with? (No including the Slovenian Sex Worker, Melania)


BTW Susan B. Anthony (February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906)

[musette_sf]

43. THIS is why he did it:

This is part of his lead-up for the amoral, depraved gestational slavery advocates featured at the RNC hate fest next week. This is a pander to the “SBA List” that co-opted Anthony for the forced birth movement. I hate him and them.

https://www.sba-list.org/

[Maeve]

44. Wasn't she convicted of a STATE crime? In NY?

Gov Cuomo should remind him that the president cannot pardon state crimes...especially in NY, which tRump may learn more personally shortly....

[PoliticAverse]

65. She was tried in federal court, see...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Susan_B._Anthony

[Maeve]

69. Ok--she never paid the fine, the directed verdict was roundly denounced and the arrest backfired

And she would spit in tRump's eye rather than take his pardon

[Kali]

45. oh for fucks sake

that was the big pardon?

[catrose]

46. How about pardon a living woman who might benefit from it? Red Fawn?

[sdfernando]

47. He is so transparent!

trying to pander to women with this move. Women are soooo much smarter than that orange pustule. They won't fall for this shit.

[niyad]

48. Listen, you misogynistic sexual predator in chief, SBA would not have anything to do with you.

This stunt is as stupidly sexist and insulting (although not as consequential) as putting the Alaska grifter on the puke ticket.

[olddad65]

49. Makes sense that if he were to make a kind gesture to a woman

It would be a deceased woman

[Sedona]

51. This

"All the women are totally going to forget the grab 'em by the pussy thing now. " Stephanie Miller

[JustAnotherGen]

52. I'm from Rochester NY

You grow up hearing and learning about Anthony, Douglass, Abolotionists, Suffragists, etc. etc.

It's a game - and she was PROUD of her misbehaving.

[Politicub]

55. He's building a binder full of women

Bless his dumbass heart.

[marble falls]

56. OFFS. That's the full extent of his ouyreach to women.

[MissMillie]

57. I guarantee she was called "Nasty" in her day...

...by people just like him.


This makes it kind of hard to take him seriously when rails on people voting illegally.

[Lonesome Beet]

59. Gratuitous Greatness

Oh, joy. The world has been watching, praying and waiting with bated breath for this historic pardon. This will really take the wind out of the Democrat's sails. Women voters will rush en masse to the Trump camp now.

At least that's probably what he was told.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

60. While at the same time making it harder to vote by mail.

[Solly Mack]

63. SBA got in "good trouble, necessary trouble". She made

some noise.

She did nothing wrong. She does not need a pardon for standing up to the Trumpian assholes and bullies of her time.

[IcyPeas]

68. aaand he manipulates the media once again

getting them (and us) all talking about who it can be he is going to pardon.....

and it's a nothingburger

[whistler162]

70. So will he authorize return of the $100 fine

with interest to her descendants?