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If society survives long enough for this to become history, the act will be seen as as heroic. The hardest thing for the relatively comfortable, myself included, to do these days is risk that relative comfort and sacrifice our futures (civil and professional) for something that acts against all of the slow motion attacks on democracy going on right now. I don't know enough about him individually to say, but the act on its face us heroic and needed.
Then why don't we pressure Biden into pardoning him?
Because accepting a pardon is an admission of guilt.
He already pleaded guilty, but then got hit with the maximum sentence (seemingly from pressure from people like Rick Scott). He's still trying to fight it out legally and his friends put together a gofundme to help cover his legal fees, but a pressure campaign for a pardon doesn't sound like a half bad idea either.
The judge compared his actions to Jan 6 -- so if Trump's elected, he'll surely pardon this guy, right?? Trump was going to release that stuff anyway, he just couldn't because mumbles into hand and then trails off
Who cares? What matters is that he is free, and he was already found guilty regardless of the fact that what he did was right.
Didn't he already plead guilty though?
ITT: people who didn't click the link. It's in like the very first sentence.
Biden's not going to pardon someone who broke the law to Biden's benefit
Corruption is bad, remember?
It's not corruption when he's pardoning someone for doing what is right.
Whether he benefits from it or not is completely irrelevant. Just because it does benefit him doesn't change the fact that what that fellow did was moral and he's being wrongly punished for it.
Your logic can be used to justify not enforcing the 14th amendment on Trump.
Please explain my logic, because I can't make heads or tails of how it justifies not applying the law to Trump