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What happens if Trump pardons the January 6 rioters?

What happens if Trump pardons the January 6 rioters?

Politics Weekly America vor 1 Jahr

This week, Jonathan Freedland speaks to Kimberly Wehle, a constitutional law expert, about whether the presidential pardon has become nothing more than a perk of the job to be used for a president’s personal convenience

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Four years after the 6 January attack on the Capitol, Donald Trump
has promised he will pardon hundreds of his supporters who were
convicted over their roles in it. This comes after Joe Biden gave
an unconditional pardon to his own son, Hunter, for federal crimes
of which he had been convicted. This week, Jonathan Freedland
speaks to Kimberly Wehle, a constitutional law expert, about
whether the presidential pardon has become nothing more than a perk
of the job to be used for a president’s personal convenience