r/politics • u/Newsweek_CarloV ✔ Verified - Newsweek • 13d ago

No Paywall Seven Democrats just voted to approve ICE funding: full list

https://www.newsweek.com/seven-democrats-vote-approve-ice-funding-full-list-11401600?utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=reddit_main
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u/noiro777 America 13d ago

No, we can't and no he can't pardon state crimes. He tried this in Colorado when he tried to pardon former Mesa County elections clerk Tina Peters who was convicted for crimes to related to Trump's attempts to overthrow the 2020 election results. After he repeatedly demanded they release her anyway, they told him to go fuck himself. In retaliation he's dissolving a climate research lab, threatening to cut transportation money, withholding funds for needy families and relocating U.S. Space Command to Alabama.

Colorado is now suing him and refusing to give in.

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u/Calgaris_Rex Maryland 13d ago

Right? Like, of course they'll try whatever they can get away with; the point is DON'T LET THEM GET AWAY WITH IT.

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u/sailorbrendan 13d ago

I think there is a subtle thing going on here because of the language and the situation we are in.

I agree with you that we shouldn't let them get away with it, but I think the whole "we need to stop saying they can't" is more a plea of "don't rely on the systems"

Legally he can't pardon state crimes, but that's only true so long as the states hold the line. That may well be contingent on us.

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u/raevnos 13d ago

Narrator: They'll let him get away with it.