At any point, market will expire if he is pardoned or either die and extended until then.
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@TimothyJohnson5c16 I respectfully disagree. What happened before and during the 2016 administration was a perverse outlier. Biden's move yesterday potentially turns this into a new norm in American politics. In a future History of the Decline and Fall of American Democracy, this might be a watershed moment.
Short-term-wise, it also creates a convenient precedent for Trump to pardon whichever felon he'd like.
@GazDownright Clinton pardoned his brother. Watershed was Nixon's pardon. It needs an amendment to fix.
@MartinRandall Thanks. My American political history is lacking, as you have revealed. In a way this is somewhat reassuring; means that things doesn't necessarily have to spiral out of control from here.
I agree on the amendment. Royal pardons are plain medieval, and pretty much a guarantee for inequality before the law.
@TommyGoldman He won't be president again, though. Oh, right, you mean Hunter Biden? He's small potatoes; the pardon itself is a much larger sin, in my opinion.
@MartinRandall Good observation, cheers. I think my comment could have been made ahead of time, too, though. That's why I bet on NO; I couldn't believe he would be this destructive and hypocritical.
Biden said he “should never have picked” Attorney General Merrick Garland during a conversation over his son’s legal troubles. This is a guy thinking about pardoning his son. https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/08/politics/bob-woodward-book-war-joe-biden-putin-netanyahu-trump/index.html
How does this resolve for a commutation?
@GazDownright Well he still technically in a physical sense is not in fact Trump. But god daym that was a plot twist!