@Humpleupagus @CrustyB @thatguyoverthere No, it isn’t. That pardoning power is enshrined in the constitution, but the POTUS can only pardon federal crimes. There are still state crimes on the books that many of them can get charged with, and you can bet that a sufficiently-motivated prosecutor would be digging through old laws to find something to charge them with.
And you can bet that a state prosecutor would feel that pressure, given how “federal funding” operates as a loophole to the 10th Amendment, an explicit example of which would be how states were forced to kowtow to MADD and raise their BAC limits for fear of losing funding for their roads.
I support this, of course, since ignoring the 10th Amendment is called “being a good person” and all.
@dave @Humpleupagus @CrustyB @thatguyoverthere
We are talking about people being prosecutied for peacefully walking in a public space. This was such a clown show, that one more formality like a presidential pardon would change nothing anyway.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/13/ocasio-cortez-climate-protestors-push-pelosi-962915
> Ocasio-Cortez, youth protesters storm Pelosi office
> Capitol Police said they arrested 51 protesters for unlawfully demonstrating outside Pelosi’s office in the Cannon House Office Building
> Pelosi said she welcomed the protest and called on the police “to allow them to continue to organize and participate in our democracy.”
> Ocasio-Cortez, left before the arrests began