Thousands of Presidential Pot Pardons

[martin]

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/biden...b08e0e6076b875

This may give Democrats a high with November 8 approaching.

[ThatOwlWoman]

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/biden...b08e0e6076b875

This may give Democrats a high with November 8 approaching.

It is not going to hurt, for sure.

[Geeko Sportivo]

This may require a joint session in Congress!

[goat]

Thousands? big fucking deal. The pardons are for stand-alone pot charges. If you know how our injustice system works, that will drop to hundreds.

[Celticguy]

Thousands? big fucking deal. The pardons are for stand-alone pot charges. If you know how our injustice system works, that will drop to hundreds.

and its only federal. state offenses would be the vast majority of simple possession charges.

[martin]

and its only federal. state offenses would be the vast majority of simple possession charges.

All pot smokers will like the guy for it.

[Life is Golden]

When all else fails, appeal to the braindead burnout faction.

[goat]

and its only federal. state offenses would be the vast majority of simple possession charges.

Biden took part in writing the 1994 crime bill that imprisoned nonwhite pot smokers.

[Phantasmal]

Biden took part in writing the 1994 crime bill that imprisoned nonwhite pot smokers.

Yes, but people can grow and realize their past mistakes, like Obama and gay marriage.

[goat]

Yes, but people can grow and realize their past mistakes, like Obama and gay marriage.

Biden has always been a corporatist; he's known in the beltway as creditcard Joe. Biden backed out of student loan forgiveness a week after he announced it. Politicians will say anything for a vote. Informed voters know that simple fact.

[Phantasmal]

Biden has always been a corporatist; he's known in the beltway as creditcard Joe. Biden backed out of student loan forgiveness a week after he announced it. Politicians will say anything for a vote. Informed voters know that simple fact.

Privately held loans, they are looking for alternative ways to forgive those.

[martin]

and its only federal. state offenses would be the vast majority of simple possession charges.

From the NY Times today:

"The pardons will clear about 6,500 people who were convicted on federal charges of simple possession of marijuana from 1992 to 2021 and thousands more who were convicted of possession in the District of Columbia, officials said ahead of the president’s announcement."

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/06/u...na-pardon.html

[Phantasmal]

From the NY Times today:

"The pardons will clear about 6,500 people who were convicted on federal charges of simple possession of marijuana from 1992 to 2021 and thousands more who were convicted of possession in the District of Columbia, officials said ahead of the president’s announcement."

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/06/u...na-pardon.html

He encourages Governors to do the same! Go Dark Brandon

[goat]

Privately held loans, they are looking for alternative ways to forgive those.

Those privately held loans were written in Delaware, it only took a few phone calls to get creditcard Joe to back out of student debt relief.

[Phantasmal]

Those privately held loans were written in Delaware, it only took a few phone calls to get creditcard Joe to back out of student debt relief.

They are still giving debt relief, just not to private loan at this time. It’s Capitalism not Biden, Biden would pay them, but you know, private not federal.