Comment on Is there a mechanism in the USA to undo presidential pardons years later if political corruption has been proven as motivation to give these pardons?

bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Fermion@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Unless that person has comitted more crimes they were not previously prosecuted for. Which is not entirely unlikely if they are emboldened by having avoided punishment thanks to the backing of a corrupt POTUS. I.E. multiple Jan 6’ers.

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  • bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Recidivism doesn’t have anything to do with being re-incarcerated for the thing they were originally incarcerated for.

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    • Fermion@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Right, they would be subject to new prosecution for new crimes because of their recidivism. The pardoned crimes are no longer relevant to whether they end up incarcerated again. My point is that we have already seen high rates of recidivism in those pardoned by Trump, and a reformed Attorney General’s office or states can prosecute crimes that haven’t been pardoned. This doesn’t provide justice for the corruption of bad pardons, but if the end result is incarceration just the same, then that might be close enough to justice.

      I think we are in agreement, I guess I didn’t phrase my initial comment particularly well.

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      • bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I took OP’s wording to mean re-incarcerating them for the same crime, although it’s not explicit in that either now that I’m looking at it again. Anyway yeah let them rot, idgaf what for. They got Capone on tax evasion. 🤷‍♂️

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