He decided to bet everything on this instead of taking the obvious escape route of resigning during the lame duck period and having President Pence give him a general pardon (Which is... one of those loopholes that we should've closed by now honestly)https://twitter.com/BrianWithCheese/status/1326384373936091136 …
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Although that was different logic, saying to accept the pardon is to validate the corrupt system that produced the original conviction I'm not sure that logic holds -- 90% of the time the defense people give of the pardon power is it's a last resort to *reject* a broken system
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Like if you know someone was convicted because of a badly corrupt justice system, the symbolic posthumous pardon is the only formal recourse you have for repudiating it, that's the only reason to do it ...Pretty sure the museum only said this because it was coming from Trump
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I thought that, in that case, it's because she accepted the arrest in protest in the first place. Her asserting her "guilt" was the whole point, so pardoning her was ridiculous.
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Sure, but there are plenty of other cases where everyone involved with a pardon understood that the point of it was to say "This shouldn't have been illegal to begin with"
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