saxitoxin wrote:Judge hits Biden over pardon --
“The President’s own Attorney General and Department of Justice personnel oversaw the investigation leading to the charges,” Scarsi wrote. “In the President’s estimation, this legion of federal civil servants, the undersigned included, are unreasonable people.”
Scarsi further castigated President Biden for claiming his son “was treated differently” than others who paid their taxes late due to addiction, when in his guilty plea, Hunter Biden admitted he engaged in tax evasion after he regained sobriety.
“In short, a press release is not a pardon,” Scarsi wrote of the statement released by the White House Sunday night from Biden announcing the pardon. “The Constitution provides the President with broad authority to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, but nowhere does the Constitution give the President the authority to rewrite history.”
The judge said he would dispose of the case once he receives the official pardon from “the appropriate executive agency.”
He also expressed concern over the pardon’s language, which granted clemency to Hunter Biden for his offenses against the country “during the period from January 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024.” Because the pardon was issued before the day’s end, Scarsi questioned whether President Biden exceeded the scope of his presidential pardon power by granting relief for future offenses — even if just for a few hours.
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-ba ... dismissed/
I think that:
1) The pardon exceeds to the scope of any Presidential pardon before;
2) the only other Presidential pardon that come CLOSE is the one Gerald Ford granted Richard Nixon and (as I recall) most Americans agreed with it);
3) the pardon was granted to protect Joe Biden and HIS family, NOT just Hunter. There is lots of influence peddling to be hidden, for the Biden Family Clan.
4) AND, I suspect that Hunter will be investigated for a non-Federal criminal offense, AFTER Trump is sworn in.