Politico legal reporter Kyle Cheney on Tuesday brought word that the Trump Department of Justice stumbled badly in trying to justify freezing funds for the United States Agency for International Development.During a hearing in front of United States District Court for the District of Columbia Judge ...
  • @trougnouf
    1•1 day ago

    Can you expand on “and Trump can’t pardon them”?

    • @just_another_personOP
      -1•1 day ago

      Two reasons:

      1. President can only pardon federal convictions
      2. Contempt is not a conviction. It’s a power of the courts to compel compliance.