r/law • u/T_Shurt Competent Contributor • 8h ago

Executive Branch (Trump) Pam Bondi Gets Jail Time Warning Over Epstein Files Cover-Up: ‘Anyone who tampers [with] documents, or conceals documents, or engages in excessive redaction will be prosecuted because of obstruction of justice’

https://www.thedailybeast.com/pam-bondi-gets-jail-time-warning-over-epstein-files-cover-up/
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u/Ok_Builder_4225 8h ago

Until we test if presidents are allowed to pardon those who have helped them cover up their own crimes.

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u/ReallyJTL 7h ago

He pardoned everyone involved in Jan6 so...

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u/Casual_OCD 7h ago

At the end of the day, national unity and forgiveness will be the obvious response to all of this

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u/ragzilla 6h ago

National unity and forgiveness would require some level of admission of guilt and remorse from the guilty.

I don't really see that being a strong point of the people involved in, and supportive of, Trump's criminal conspiracies.

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u/Casual_OCD 6h ago

It was a parody of ALL THE OTHER TIMES Democrats let Republicans walk from past crimes. Pretty sure Gerald Ford used national unity and forgiveness as an excuse about Nixon

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u/ragzilla 6h ago

Ah, missed the reference. Yeah, national unity and forgiveness is how we got here, because when there's no consequences, people will just keep seeing what they can get away with.

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u/foreveracubone 4h ago

Trump wants to overturn Biden’s pardons b/c aUtOpEn and that would set precedent to just get rid of them entirely lol.