With the president’s decision to drop out of the race, he has effectively begun a longer lame-duck period, which is historically when most presidential clemency grants have occurred.
Not so sure it’s correct to say he’s already in the “lame duck” phase the article mentions where most presidents stuff their clemency grants. It might be true in a literal sense, but public perception is presumably the main reason presidents wait until that period for this sort of thing, and I’m sure he’s still very conscious of how his own PR could affect Harris’s campaign.
By the article’s logic, every president elected to a second term has entered their lame duck phase the day after the election.
They have…. That’s why there is a usual trend of bolder actions taken by second term presidents because they’re no longer eligible for candidacy for President.
That’s also why we can’t fuck about with a second Trump term.
They keep trying to extend the term lame duck.
It’s like Christmas season. Soon the lame duck period will start before they even begin campaigning for their first term!
C’mon he won’t do this until the elections over. Nothing controversial until after the election.
C’mon he won’t do this at all.
Hello Mr Crab! What shall we discuss today? Here we have your “b b b but Biden bad!”
Ok, sure. He’ll totally do it. He’s not Crime Bill Biden anymore. Most progressive human to ever grace this worthless rock or whatever. No criticism of your god allowed.
Ah sarcasm and appeal to a diety that ‘obviously thou worships him like a god’, when I simply point out a fact that he won’t do a controversial thing until after the election. That a simple fact to you means worship is laughable. I wonder if it’s projection.
You speculated he was waiting because it was controversial. I speculated he wasn’t going to do it at all. Your speculation is no more fact than mine. Yet you also believed that Biden was gonna reschedule cannabis, and that was a fucking lie too.
It’s a fact that pardons, especially controversial ones, come at the end after the election. That this means worship to you is still laughable. You’re now just trying to be pedantic on the word fact.
Still mad that it’s just a little ahead of the ball to say that he (whatever agency really) rescheduled marijuana? Boy. Not to mention it’s just another form of trying to be pedantic.
Still mad that it’s just a little ahead of the ball
He never intended to reschedule, and he ran out the clock.
I suspect that if he intends a mass pardon he will do it after the election. Common sense says that there is more risk of negative campaign influence then positive in this case, and why would he risk it?
https://news.gallup.com/poll/514007/grassroots-support-legalizing-marijuana-hits-record.aspx
Looks pretty blatantly positive to me
The difference here is pardoning [clutches pearls] criminals. Which will be spun to dangerous, convicted, surely “seriously bad guys” that plead down to a lesser charge.
He can’t pardon people from state crimes, all he can do is pardon from federal. Once reclassified, he can “urge” Congress to write legislation to superceed state laws, be he isn’t the the legislative branch.
I’ll be shocked if he actually keeps his word.
He kicked off the process to have them investigate it so it could be reclassified back in 2022. The reclassification would be the grounds for courts to accept changes in sentences. Once the reclassification is done Congress will have to write the bill, not the executive branch, he’s done his part already.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-submits-proposed-regulation-reschedule-marijuana
The president can’t just bypass the judicial or legislative branch and magically make it happen.
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