Elon Musk has joined calls for President Trump to pardon ex-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who was convicted of murdering George Floyd in 2020. A Trump pardon would end Chauvin’s 20-year sentence on federal convictions for violating Floyd’s civil rights, but Trump does not have the power to commute Chauvin’s 22.5-year sentence on state murder charges.
  • @MisterFrog@lemmy.world
    28•1 month ago

    Presidential pardons are one of the dumbest powers. Change my mind.

    (Plenty of more stable countries get on fine without it, and don’t have to deal with this nonsense to boot)

    • @madcaesar@lemmy.world
      23•1 month ago

      People lose their shit over jury nullification, yet somehow pardons are A-OK

      Pardons should not be a thing, in my lifetime its pretty much only been used for scummy shit.