Guilty of nothing: Lt. Gov. Hochul says Susan B. Anthony doesn't need a pardon

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Source: Rochesterfirst.com





Posted: Aug 18, 2020 / 11:19 AM EDT / Updated: Aug 18, 2020 / 12:09 PM EDT


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Anthony is best known for her role in the movement to secure voting rights for women. Trump said he would sign “a full and complete pardon” on Tuesday, the 100-year anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which ensured women the right to vote. It’s also known as the Susan B. Anthony Amendment.

“I was deeply troubled to learn that Trump went ahead and treated her like a criminal,” Hochul said. “Susan B. Anthony was guilty of nothing.”


From the Susan B. Anthony House, the lieutenant governor said they are demanding the president rescind his pardon.

“She was proud of her arrest to draw attention to the cause for women’s rights, and never paid her fine. Let her Rest in Peace,” Hochul said. “I stopped a long time trying to figure out why he does what he does, but this was not to honor her. I don’t know why he did what he did but I assure you it was not with the best interest of the public at heart.”

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I agree. Trump is shameless and is using the anniversary for his political gain. AGAIN.

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[rocktivity]

1. A play for the suburban women's vote, I suspect

Since his signing away Obama's all-income housing policies didn't work.


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[kiri]

10. Wasn't Anthony convicted of violating a state or local law?

Wasn't Anthony convicted of violating a state or local law?

Hence, trumpio has no power to pardon.

It's all just posturing, like with the Bible.

[Maeve]

11. Agree. He may find that is true, especially in New York!

Fingers crossed

[PoliticAverse]

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

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

[LiberalFighter]

19. From my reading she was tried in federal court but it was for a state violation.

There are many discrepancies with the situation that calls into the legitimacy of the trial and judge.

[TomCADem]

2. If Republicans Want To Honor Susan B. Anthony, Then Stop Suppressing the Vote!

If Trump is going to pardon Susan B. Anthony after her death, why not ask him about why he and Republicans are trying so hard to reverse and to suppress the rights that Susan B. Anthony fought for? As Susan B. Anthony, said, how can the consent of the governed be given, if the right to vote is denied?

Susan B. Anthony's words are as true today as they were a hundred years ago:

http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/anthony/anthonyaddress.html

Friends and Fellow-citizens: I stand before you to-night, under indictment for the alleged crime of having voted at the last Presidential election, without having a lawful right to vote. It shall be my work this evening to prove to you that in thus voting, I not only committed no crime, but, instead, simply exercised my citizen's right, guaranteed to me and all United States citizens by the National Constitution, beyond the power of any State to deny.

Our democratic-republican government is based on the idea of the natural right of every individual member thereof to a voice and a vote in making and executing the laws. We assert the province of government to be to secure the people in the enjoyment of their unalienable rights. We throw to the winds the old dogma that governments can give rights. Before governments were organized, no one denies that each individual possessed the right to protect his own life. liberty and property. And when 100 or 1,000,000 people enter into a free government, they do not barter away their natural rights; they simply pledge themselves to protect each other in the enjoyment of them, through prescribed judicial and legislative tribunals. They agree to abandon the methods of brute force in the adjustment of their differences, and adopt those of civilization.

Nor can you find a word in any of the grand documents left us by the fathers that assumes for government the power to create or to confer rights. The Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, the constitutions of the several states and the organic laws of the territories, all alike propose to protect the people in the exercise of their God-given rights. Not one of them pretends to bestow rights.

"All men are created equal, and endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights. Among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed."

Here is no shadow of government authority over rights, nor exclusion of any from their full and equal enjoyment. Here is pronounced the right of all men, and "consequently," as the Quaker preacher said, "of all women," to a voice in the government. And here, in this very first paragraph of the declaration, is the assertion of the natural right of all to the ballot; for, how can "the consent of the governed" be given, if the right to vote be denied. Again:

"That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundations on such principles, and organizing its powers in such forms as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness."

[PatSeg]

3. Well, that little stunt backfired on him

He's just all over the place these days, vainly struggling to stay afloat.

[underpants]

4. But Ivanka and Jared (IvanRed) thought it was such a clever idea

It even includes some pandering to the prolifers because Susan B was anti-abortion. Something I was completely unaware of until I was today years old. Nor did I care.

[maxsolomon]

5. He should spend a little time trying to figure out why he does what he does.

It's not complex. He has a pathological need to make everyone think and talk about him all the time, and that is how his Politics functions.

He is a gaslighting bully and we are all being abused.

[LizBeth]

6. Ha, I was thinking exactly this when I was reading about the pardon. Probably pissed and rolling in

grave that Trump interfered with where she held strong.

[PhylliPretzel]

7. He was honoring himself

by saying her name.

[Collimator]

8. Trump isn't just pandering.

He's tail-coating, as well. Trump loves to associate himself with public figures who have actually done something with their lives. Look at the way he regularly evokes Lincoln.

The fool doesn't know much in the way of history, but he can see the big, "purty" statues and think to himself, that's what I want for me; then people will know how important and powerful I am.

[tanyev]

9. Has anyone looked to see if there's a Trump tweet making fun of the Susan B. Anthony coin?

[Bayard]

13. Yeah, but she didn't have a trump pardon

They're the biggliest, most beautiful pardons.

[Mad Lib]

14. Utterly presumptuous

This reminds me of the Mormon practice of baptizing Jews after their death. Unwanted, unneeded, and frankly, an insult to the life actually lived.

[Dios Mio]

15. Jeez, he had to dig deep for this one.

If he tried to honour any woman that was still breathing he would be told to screw himself.

[CaptYossarian]

16. You could tell Trump knew she was on the dollar coin.

He kept referring to her as "that Indian chick".

[Metro135]

17. He's so full of it

Yeah, I'm sure he was "deeply troubled." Did he cut short a golf game?

[gordianot]

18. Susan has something Trump will never have.

Her face on an American coin.

[Marcuse]

20. He wanted to pardon Muhammad Ali too.