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12. I'm not a lawyer, but it seems to me that any crime that is a federal crime would also
Sun Jul 12, 2020, 12:05 AM
Jul 2020

be a state crime if states would simply declare that to be the case. Whatever happens at the federal level affects the states, at least in many situations such as national security, voting rights, etc. A threat to national security is a threat to the states, not (only) the federal bureaucracy. There should be a way to override corrupt presidential pardons, which Republicans are especially fond of doing.

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