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#Biden’s staff is debating whether he should issue blanket #pardons for a swath of #Trump’s perceived enemies to protect them from the “retribution” he has threatened after he takes office….
The idea would be to pre-emptively extend executive clemency to a list of current & former government officials for any possible *crimes* over a period of years, effectively short-circuiting the next president’s promised campaign of reprisals.
White House officials do not believe the potential recipients have actually committed crimes, but they have grown increasingly worried that #Trump’s selections for top #DOJ positions indicate that he will follow through on his repeated vows to seek #revenge. Even an investigation that results in no charges could drag on for months or years, costing those people hundreds of thousands of dollars in #legal fees & crippling their career prospects.
The discussion of blanket #pardons, reported earlier by Politico, remains primarily at a staff level although #POTUS #Biden has talked about it with senior members of the team…. It comes after Biden pardoned his son Hunter to spare him from prison on gun & tax charges. The White House declined to comment on Thursday.
#law #democracy #USpol
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/12/04/biden-white-house-pardons-00192610
…Never before has a #POTUS issued mass #pardons of govt ofcls for fear a successor would seek to prosecute them out of…vindictiveness.
But the choices of #PamBondi, fmr FL AG & #Trump surrogate, to run #DOJ & #KashPatel, fmr Trump aide & #FarRight provocateur, to be director of the #FBI have put the issue front & center. Patel has vowed to “come after” Trump’s critics & even published a list of ~60 people he considered “members of the executive branch deep state” as the appendix to a 2023 book.
@Nonilex One big problem with this is that it would be unprecedented and legally questionable...and guess who owns the Federal Courts who would rule on the subject...
@snarky@wa.us @Nonilex
Big pardons are nothing new.
- Vietnam war draft evaders, first by Ford, then by Carter
- WW2 draft evaders by Truman
- CSA soldiers, by Lincoln, then by Johnson
@Nonilex Get busy.
@Nonilex Yeah, except the next administration doesn’t care about what’s legal, or even what’s true.
The only way to keep these people safe is exile.