Elon Musk has joined calls for President Trump to pardon ex-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who was convicted of murdering George Floyd in 2020. A Trump pardon would end Chauvin’s 20-year sentence on federal convictions for violating Floyd’s civil rights, but Trump does not have the power to commute Chauvin’s 22.5-year sentence on state murder charges.
  • @MisterFrog
    27•21 hours ago

    Presidential pardons are one of the dumbest powers. Change my mind.

    (Plenty of more stable countries get on fine without it, and don’t have to deal with this nonsense to boot)

    • @madcaesar
      23•21 hours ago

      People lose their shit over jury nullification, yet somehow pardons are A-OK

      Pardons should not be a thing, in my lifetime its pretty much only been used for scummy shit.

      • @moakleyEnglish
        1•37 minutes ago

        Didn’t Biden pardon everyone who was arrested for marijuana possession?

      • qevlarr
        1•6 hours ago

        Chelsea Manning tho. Only non-scummy instance I can think of right now

      • @tehmics
        7•17 hours ago

        Shout outs to pardoning Ross Ulbricht, while blaming Canada for fent