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- politics@sh.itjust.works
- bbc@rss.ponder.cat
The White House says it is the highest number of presidential acts of clemency in a single day.
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20241212184705/https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c30nq7r0v2mo
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Why is presential pardon a thing ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiskey_Rebellion
The American Revolution was a bourgeois one which didn’t benefit the yeoman farmer. This working class one sparked up immediately when the federal government was still very weak and trying to tax a subsistence commodity. The leaders were pardoned to prevent a larger rebellion from breaking out over their execution. Prior to that the pardon power was supposed to be an act of congress.