• gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    It might be illegal for the DOJ personnel to follow that order, but he can just tell them he’ll pardon them for any crimes they’re charged with for following his order and that he’ll murder them if they don’t follow his order, and all of that is totally legal

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      It might be illegal

      But we’ll never know, because looking into his motivations is literally forbidden.

      All he can be tried for is the action in a vacuum. And if it was explicitly within his powers. He’s good

      Literally anything that goes thru an agency is automatically cool.

      That’s why it’s so dangerous to half ass this election and for Biden to just ignore all the power he has.

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      The president can pardon people for unspecified things (proven by Trump). He can pardon anyone for “following orders”