The decision of President Joe Biden to clear the federal death row has caused an uproar in some quarters and praise in others. There are good-faith arguments on both sides. However, there was a curious element to the Biden pardons for 37 people on death row. There were 40 people on death row. Three remain.
In making the announcement, President Biden declared that he had sympathy for the families of the victims:
“But guided by my conscience and my experience as a public defender, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, vice-president, and now President, I am more convinced than ever that we must stop the use of the death penalty at the federal level. In good conscience, I cannot stand back and let a new administration resume executions that I halted.”
It was an odd statement because, for most of his career, Biden was an advocate of capital punishment. Indeed, in 1991, when Biden was still positioning himself for a run for the presidency, he condemned President George HW Bush’s Justice Department for being soft on crime and not sending enough people to death row: “He’s only four times a year put someone in prison for life and only once gotten the death penalty.”
Previously, Biden showed the same fervor in demanding the death penalty. In 1992, he bragged that his sponsored crime bill included new death penalty offenses and did “everything but hang people for jaywalking.”
Of course, Biden can claim that he has finally seen the light at the very end of his political career. Yet, his sweeping declaration does not match up with the scope of his commutations.
It will not stop the death penalty or prevent the executions on death row. Three remained: Dylann Roof, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, and Robert Bowers.
It was vintage Biden: a sweeping claim of principles that ignores the exceptions. He is opposed to the death penalty and wants to stop it entirely, except for three of the most unpopular people scheduled for execution.
For the families, the distinction is a precious one. It includes
•Brandon Council who murdered two in a bank robbery.
• Edward Leon Fields, Jr. who stalked and killed an older couple camping in the Winding Stair Mountains in Oklahoma like game.
• Len Davis, a former New Orleans police officer, who killed a woman who filed a civil rights complaint against him. Davis was known as the “Desire Terrorist” who led a criminal gang that protected criminals and locked up innocent people.
• Brandon Basham and Chadrick Fulks who were sentenced to death after escaping from prison and kidnapping and killing 44-year-old Alice Donovan and 19-year-old Samantha Burns. Donovan was raped and Burns was never found.
• Marvin Charles Gabrion II who sexually assaulted and murdered Rachel Timmerman before the nineteen-year-old was scheduled to testify against him. She disappeared with her eleven-month-old baby, Shannon, who was also presumably murdered by Gabrion who threw Timmerman’s body into a lake.
• Daniel Troya and Ricardo Sanchez Jr. who killed a family of four, including two children aged four and three in West Palm Beach, Florida, in 2006.
The point is not that Biden’s current stance against the death penalty is manifestly wrong. Rather, these cases are also considered horrific. The question is the principled line of separation for Biden who stated a desire to end all executions but then exempted some death row inmates from his sweeping commutations.
It is classic Biden. Sweeping in its claim, but conflicted and qualified in its application. He wants to end executions except for a select few without explaining the principled basis for the distinction. Even in the final days of his presidency and political career, principle still seems awkward and incomplete for Biden.
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University and the author of “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.”
The first sentence has it wrong! These commutations were not biden’s decision; he does not have the mental capacity to put 37 in one group and 3 in another or to author a press release. The puppeteers made the decisions and wrote the press release. And … it is nonsensical to claim that his “experience” as a public defender shaped the decisions. A short stint after finishing law school? How many murder cases during that time? I’m surprised he didn’t attribute the decisions, specifically, to the rosary in his pocket. Maybe doing these awful deeds is what has gotten him his audience with Francis? The press release excuse is just another lie by biden.
* Dr. Coppelius at work
“. . . clear the federal death row . . .” (JT)
Send them to Venezuela — as payback.
Is there anyone in the world who doesn’t know biden is all but brain dead? Whomever is making these decisions does not have the authority to do so and needs to be prosecuted. I imagine it’s one of biden’s freaks who identifies as the President.
* Technically that’s true but there are no provisions for taking him out. The cabinet did not fo what is constitutional. Joe delegated his pardon privilege. Nothing says he can’t.
* Joe is drugged most likely kettamine and is briefed by criminals daily. He’s in a fantasy world.
The death penalty is simply meant to send murderers off to Hell sooner than later. They can then murder freely because Joe is in charge.
@Janice
Yep. And I don’t buy this ‘pivot’ from desperate actors on the modern left; pandering, lying, and then once in power disregarding us and stamping their boot on our faces is their M.O., and at this point I don’t think it’s possible for them to extricate themselves from their web of chicanery. They sure as heck can’t walk any of it back, it’s much too late for that; I’m never voting dem or anything that smells of the modern left ever again.
And with younger generations, the problem they have created is going to be a burden on all of us for a long time to come even as we course correct.
Here is former Senator Feingold’s different perspective on Biden’s clemency action. https://thehill.com/opinion/5051243-biden-death-sentences-clemency/
* what’s different? Feingold is a Democrat. Oh Joe is courageous, empathetic, compassionate blah blah and that horrible Trump.
Same old thing…
Murder is a crime of passion. Jealousy is a passion. Envy is and greed, and power, revenge, there all emotions. Hate is an emotion. The 3 not included were all extreme cases of passion, hate.
Murder for hire is cold blooded based on nothing but a job, a business.
This is superficial bunk.
Feingold apparently has no empathy for the victims. Bizarre is the category.
Different perspective from Professor Turley.
Differing
PT: An insignificant radio station in Australia makes a gigantic point by showing the mindset of small and ignorant people. What happened to Western values?
They are small, purposefully ignorant and hatefully antisemitic.
They are not inclusive, equitable and diverse unless it is being indoctrinated into their odious radicalism.
Thank you for sharing.
Thank you, EM. This was a minor figure with little influence. People and governments need to stay in their lanes and embrace the principle of ‘live and let live.’ The rise of anti-Semitism is alarming and often met with indifference. Meanwhile, Christians are being persecuted and killed in other parts of the world, and the apathy toward their suffering is just as troubling.
Governments should stick SOLEY to their domain – there should be absolutely no funding of anything outside national security, the rule of law, and adjudicating private disputes.
* ah, the rule of law. As misread and misapplied by whom? How about those who just think the law should change because they don’t have those morals? There’s the rub…
A smaller government that empowers states and individuals is best. It minimizes corruption, maximizes personal freedom, and upholds individual dignity. By adhering to the Constitution, we ensure a government that respects its boundaries and secures liberty for all.
* the station is probably getting death threats.
So? What is your point?
* Charlie hebdo? Most are cowards knowing how violent they are.
We can all be threatened. Should that cause us to respond in hate toward others?
Jonathan: Funny, but you have nothing to say about the just released House ethics report about Matt Gaetz. Probably because not even you could defend that lowlife. The report says as much about the moral bankruptcy of DJT as is does about Gaetz.
A reading of the report makes you sick to your stomach. The report says Gaetz “violated House Rules, state and federal laws, and other standards of conduct prohibiting prostitution, statutory rape, illicit drug use, acceptance of impermissible gifts, the provision of special favors and privileges, and obstruction of Congress. And Gaetz “took advantage of the economic vulnerability of young women to lure them into sexual activity for which they received an average of a few hundred dollars after each encounter…”. Never in the history of the House have we seen such an indictment of a sitting member of the House.
Yet, this is the person DJT wanted to inflict on the American people as the chief law enforcement official! And it was apparently Elon Musk that recommended Gaetz to DJT. In an early post Musk said this: “Matt Gaetz has 3 critical assets that are needed for the AG role: a big brain, a spine of steel and an axe to grind. He is the Judge Dredd America needs…” For Musk moral depravity is not a disqualifying factor for those that will serve in the Musk/DJT administration!
JFK, Monster
By Timothy Noah“I knew that John F. Kennedy was a compulsive, even pathological adulterer, given to taking outlandish risks after he entered the White House. I knew he treated women like whores. And I knew he had more than a few issues with his father about toughness and manliness and all that. But before I read in the newspaper that Mimi Alford’s just-released memoir, Once Upon A Secret: My Affair With President John F. Kennedy And Its Aftermath, described giving Dave Powers a blow job at JFK’s request and in his presence, I didn’t know that Kennedy had an appetite for subjecting those close to him to extreme humiliation.
“Clinton pays Paula Jones $850,000”
Associated Press
Wed 13 Jan 1999 13.15 EST
“WASHINGTON (AP) – Paula Jones is awaiting the arrival of an $850,000 cheque from President Clinton, bringing an official end to the four-year saga spurred by her allegations of sexual harassment.”
“FDR and His Women”
“… she was deeply wounded to discover that Franklin had been having an affair with her secretary, Lucy Mercer.”
Bill Clinton as enabled by Hillary Clinton
_______________________________
1. Eileen Wellstone (1969) Allegation: Sexual assault
2. Anonymous female student at Yale University (1972) Allegation: Sexual assault
3. Anonymous female student at the University of Arkansas (1974) Allegation: Sexual assault
4. Anonymous female lawyer (1977) Allegation: Sexual assault
5. Juanita Broaddrick (1978) Allegation: Rape
6. Carolyn Moffet (1979) Allegation: Sexual assault
7. Elizabeth Ward (1983) Allegation: Unclear
8. Sally Perdue (1983) Allegation: Unclear
9. Paula Jones (1991) Allegation: Sexual harassment
10. Sandra Allen James (1991) Allegation: Sexual assault
11. Christy Zercher (1992) Allegation: Sexual assault
12. Kathleen Willey (1993) Allegation: Sexual assault
This part of Alford’s story doesn’t really add anything to what we already know about Kennedy. Nor does it really change my opinion of the 35th president. But this part does:
Dave Powers was sitting poolside while the President and I swam lazy circles around each other, splashing playfully. Dave had removed his jacket and loosened his tie in the warm air of the pool, but he was otherwise fully clothed. He was sitting on a towel, with his pants leg rolled up, and his bare feet dangling in the water.
The President swam over and whispered in my ear. “Mr. Powers looks a little tense,” he said. “Would you take care of it?”
It was a dare, but I knew exactly what he meant. This was a challenge to give Dave Powers oral sex. I don’t think the President thought I’d do it, but I’m ashamed to say that I did. It was a pathetic, sordid, scene, and is very hard for me to think about today. Dave was jolly and obedient as I stood in the shallow end of the pool and performed my duties. The President silently watched.
Afterwards, Alford says she was “deeply embarrassed,” and as she climbed out of the pool she “could hear Dave speak in as stern a tone as I ever heard him use with his boss. ‘You shouldn’t have made her do that,’ Dave said. ‘I know, I know,’ I heard the President say. Later, a chastened President Kennedy apologized to us both.” Alford believes that Kennedy showed “his darker side … when we were among men he knew. That’s when he felt a need to display his power over me.” Kennedy didn’t just have a thing for Social Register girls; he had a thing for humiliating Social Register girls. He also had a thing for humiliating his fellow Irishman, Dave Powers.
– Timothy Noah
* take your illness elsewhere…
* He was married to Hillary. Is…
And Dennis accepts everything in the report at face value
Now that the report has been leaked Gaetz may as well serve his next term and damn the slings and arrows.
The report is mostly spin.
As I noted to Dennis – either these were “vulnerable young women” who chose to have sex with Gaetz, or they were prostitutes.
They were NOT both.
Regardless, NEITHER claim involves sexual assault or harassment.
If you presume the FACTS alleged are true – then the SPIN is false.
This is actually a Fizzle, Gaetz;s detractors (including some republicans) were better off with this report in the dark playing an innuendo game.
But bringing it into the light it falls FAR short of promises.
Possibly the worse allegation is drug use.
I once would have precluded anyone from being AG who used illegal drugs. It is POSSIBLE that AG garland has not – but does anyone believe that Holder never used illegal drugs ?
I would be surprised if Bondi never used illegal drugs. Trump is apparently a TeeTotaler – not even alcohol. But I would be shocked if Biden did not use druges, Obama has admitted that he did, as has Harris, and Clinton. Bush likely did, certainly family members did.
If we rule out illegal drug use – we would have no one in public office.
This is all spin.
It’s tawdry at best..
Dennis SmackInTire is so deluded and depraved that he actually believes the lies he’s been fed by his Dunceocrat Marxist Masters. The so-called “report” on Mtt Gaetz has about as much credibility as the fake Steel “dossier.” That is, the “report” has zero credibility. The proof of this comes from the DOJ itself, under Dunceocrat Marxist Merrick Swampland. We know this because the DOJ would have carried out lawfare against Gaetz if they had anything whatsoever to go on. But the DOJ recognized that there was little they could do with zero evidence and “witnesses” that were deemed to have the credibility of Dennis SmackInTire himself; ergo, zero credibility.
Dennis SmackInTire once again proves that Shakespeare was correct when he wrote (sort of),
“Some are born stupid. Some achieve stupidity. And some have stupidity thrust upon them.”
Of course, in Dennis SmackInTire’s case, these three situations aren’t necessarily mutually exclusive.
Dennis McIntyre deflected as only a crazy, vicious communist can:
Jonathan: Funny, but you have nothing to say about the just released House ethics report about Matt Gaetz.
Dennis is attempting to deflect like an NHL center planted ten feet in front of the goalie during a power play while the defensemen on point send slappers his way.
Funny, not funny, Dennis: With your morality on display, you never once mentioned that Nancy Pelosi has spent years hiding the tens of millions of TAXPAYER money she paid as hush money to conceal sexual assaults and harassment carried out by other Democrat members of the House. Sexual assaults and harassment that were going on during Pelosi’s watch LONG before Gaetz was elected to the House.
How many of the Democrats on Nancy’s List Of Democrat Pedophiles And Rapists do you know, Dennis?
Speaker Pelosi has paid $17 million in sexual misconduct and discrimination settlements
After all, whatever Gaetz did or didn’t do – NOT ONE PENNY OF TAXPAYER MONEY WAS PAID TO ANY ONE OF THEM BY PELOSI.
But now that you’ve brought up House ethics Dennis:
Funny you will run and hide before discussing how Jerry Swalwell was being honeypotted by a ChiCom spy for years – screwing a ChiCom national while he was on the Intelligence committee. Any ethics violations you see there, Dennis?
Democratic congressman Eric Swalwell says he did not share classified information with suspected Chinese spy ‘Fang Fang’
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/09/politics/swalwell-targeted-china-spy/index.html
Okay then… sexual ethics for $100, Dennis:
Which American president was elected after Democrats knew he had been repeatedly screwing his teenage daughter in the shower? Biden sez – Incest Is Best!
Sexual ethics for $200, Dennis
Which American Vice President was sending his son tens of thousands of dollars in order for him to purchase the services of underage Russian whores and drugs to use in the White House?
Where did those alleged morals and standards of yours disappear to, Dennis?
Old Airborne Dog
He is no longer a politician. He has not had his day in court. This is little to do about nothing in the political arena. It is a hit job.
When he does have his say in court and has due process, then we will see what this is all about. If he truly did what he is accused of, then it is a good thing he is no longer in politics where corruption and corrupt people abound.
Why should anyone have anything to say about illegally leaking a hoax ?
This has been in the news recently – and as a result – for those who actually bother to check things out, the reasons that the DOJ did not go after Gaetz have come to the surface.
First, DOJ investigated lots of this and found that significant claims were demonstrably false.
Gaetz claims not to have had says with the woman who was “underage” – regardless, no one has claimed that any sex Gaetz had was not consensual.
And the underage woman had procured and used a false ID form a left wing source that may have been trying to setup Gaetz, Regardless, False ID’s are a crime and it is not possible to have criminal intent when you are deceived into beleiving that the alleged victim was not underage.
That of course presumes the event even took place.
As to the rest of the claims – are you saying that two people who are seeking a relationship must go dutch on everything ?
If you want to try to make a sex for money claim – probably you should have an actual prostitute or escort, paying for plane tickets for a girlfriend is not soliciting, it is not illegal.
Further, most of the sources for these claims are NOT the women in question, or NOT women who are prepared to testify to any of this under oath or even to make these claims in public. Gaetz (like Hegsoth) has made it clear that anyone making false public claims about him will face defamation lawsuits.
Regardless, lets presume that what is in the report is True.
So what you have is Gaetz a single young straight man having consensual sex with other consenting adults – with ONE case in which the person in question not only lied about their age but produced counterfeit documentation to support that.
It is pretty evidence why DOJ did not try to prosecute.
What DON’T you have – allegations of sexual assault, allegations of sexual harrassment.
You do not even have allegations of infidelity or adultery.
Put simply – if EVERYTHING you claim is true, Gaetz conduct is legal and LESS immoral than that of FDR, JFK, RFK, Clinton, and Biden – it is even less immoral that what you claim Trump and Hegsoth have done.
Finally – lots of us are wondering – why Given that the House under Pelosi paid out over 100M in settlements for sexual harrassement and sexual assult claims by members of the house (of both parties). Why THIS report must be leaked to the public ?
Why are you not making public the reports of other members of the house that have sexually harrassed, or Raped people ?
This is exactly what it looks like – a hit on Gaetz, because he is a maverick who has pissed off important people in both parties.
It is my understanding that Gaetz is now angling for an appointment as a Special Counsel to investigate the payoffs over allegations of sexual misconduct that took place under Pelosi.
I think that sounds like an excellent roll for Gaetz,
Regardless, this story is a dead horse. There is no substance of consequence to it – even if you beleive it.
If you beleive EVERYTHING in it – Gaetz does not even reach the level of “one day in the life of Hunter Biden”.
There is no lying on governemnt forms, no tax evasion, no listing hookers and drugs as business expenses.
The core to this is that Gaetz appears to have had alot of consensual sex and bragged about it, as well as using illegal drugs – like unperscribed viagra.
This does not even reach the level of the PROVEN allegations against Se. Al Franken. Who took a picture of himself groping the breasts of an uncounscious women that he had no intimate relationship with.
John Say,
Agree with everything you said about Gaetz.
But, as much as I dislike former Sen Franken, my memory tells me that it was an “air grope”, a dumb photo joke, a transgression against his own team’s growing wokeness. He’s a clown.
* What’s really odd is the dems think Goetz behavior is abhorrent while they support same sex marriage, trans mutilation, WH lawn parties, cheering murderers…
Carry on Goetz…
* The house reased accusations made by some working women one of which says she was 17 but really looked 18?
Obviously he overpaid.
End of story?
* minimum wage maybe…inflation
Dennis,
If Gaetz violated actual federal laws – why didn’t DOJ prosecute him ?
You do know that pretty much everything in this report has been run in the news repeatedly before – except the spin.
First – much of this is STILL allegation not FACT. In most instances the women involved will not testify under oath and would not even make these claims publicly.
Why ? Because lies under oath are a crime, and lies in public are perjury and Gaetz has tolld all the supposed people involved that they are free to tell the truth but if they lie about him – he will go after them for Defamation.
And that is why there are no statements under oath or in public.
That alone should have killed this – and it is alteast part of why DOJ did not prosecute.
Presuming that Gaetz actually had sex with the 17 year old – a claim that has been arround for over a year, but that still has NOT been substantiated.
What HAS been substantiated is that the woman in question had a counterfeit ID that she used on multiple occasions – not just with Gaetz.
As to the rest – young women are not vulnerable because they agreed to consensual sex. That is just spin. And Wow, Gaetz, took them to diner, paid for Travel, paid other expenses.
That is called DATING.
As I said before Pelosi had the house pay out over $100M in settlements over sexual assualt, ad sexual harrassment claims against members of the house.
Where is the report on that ?
Are you actually trying to claim that a Congressmen who had consensual sex with several women and gave them gifts, is much more serious than many congressmen who engaged in workplace sexual harrassment or sexual assault ?
So what we have is the house releasing an ethics report – that Gaetz and his lawyers were not allowed to participate in that says that a single congressment dated young women and gave them gifts
But absolutely nothing on congressmen who raped, sexually assaulted or sexually harrassed women ?
😂 dating? Is that what they call it…
You claim the report claims Gaetz ciolated laws on prostitution – while at the same time claiming these were “vulnerable young women”.
WHICH IS IT ?
You can not be both a prostitute and a “vulnerable young women”.
If Gaetz paid women who were SELLING Sex i.e. Actual prostitutes. That would STILL leave him several levels of morality above Hunter Biden and the unidentified house members who sexually assaulted women.
Conversely if these women were NOT prostitutes – then they were DATES and what we have is the House Ethics committee investigating the consensual sex life of a political enemy.
This may be hard for you but if you actually parse the self contradictory nature of this report – it makes Gaetz look Good, not bad, and it makes those going after him look bad, not good.
Did Goetz hire them as any government secretary or special prosecutor or maybe Russian spy? Did he enter them correctly in his IRS docs? It’s really just embarrassing scandal isn’t it?
You must enjoy the JFK scandal someone is posting on this blog. Too bad JFK isn’t here to defend himself. Are they all dead now?
Bizarre
Dennis,
While I have pointed out that even if True – absent spin this is a fizzle,
but it is worse than that.
This is the house ethics committee – there is a reason these investigations are secret.
Like police investigations – they are not under oath, there is no right of the accused to present their case or cross examine,
all kinds of evidence that is not admissible such as hearsay can be considered.
To be clear – all this is fine. But just as we do not release anything from the police unless there is a trial in which case ONLY those things that are sworn under oath and otherwise admissible are made public,
We do not make police investigations public to protect the innocent.
I am glad this has been released – because the hit job on Gaetz is weaker in the light of day.
But it was just as immoral to do so, as to make public information from any other police investigation that does not resulit in indictment or trial.
Dennis,
The virulence of left wing nut opposition to a Trump appointment and the incredible efforts the left will go to to take them out, is a strong signal that Candidate was a good and necessary choice.
The more you rant about Musk – the more important Musk becomes.
The more you rant about Gaetz or Hegsoth or Gabbard, or RFK jr. the more important those candidates become.
That is not just true of me, it is true nationwide.
Your lawfare and character assassination attempts have backfired.
Leftwing attacks on a person are increasingly seen as a sign of virtue – and not just by MAGA republicans.
You burned your credibility to ash, and now your opposition is a signal of the strength of a candidate, rather than weakeness.
“Funny, but you have nothing to say about the just released House ethics report about Matt Gaetz.”
Well, there’s a reason for that you very stoopid thing, the article is about the biden pardons.
I hope you get a brain for xmas.
Hammurabi’s Code was the codification of an ancient Mesopotamian legal system that predates 2,000 BC. It contained principles that are still followed in American courtrooms such as innocent until proven guilty. The code mandates, for example, that in order to find someone guilty of a crime, evidence needs to be gathered and proof established, The code expressed the principle of reciprocal justice, measure for measure. This code of reciprocal justice, measure for measure, predates the writing of the Hebrew Bible and “an eye for an eye” as a commandment found in the Book of Exodus 21:23–27.
Ancient Saxon/Germanic law began with the justice system of bot and wergilt. Basically, the criminal paid the price of the harm they cased to their victim. In an example such as one of those Biden just pardoned, an animal who raped and tortured a woman and her 12 year old daughter for three days out in the woods before butchering them, the wergilt would have been suffering at the very least execution, and quite possibly a similar death. Criminologists generally believe it was a rough but effective system of justice as far as deterrence and eliminating recidivism for other crimes went.
These were effective justice systems and predated numerous criminal justice systems today, including American, Canadian, and British.
Fast forward to a century ago, and capitol punishment for deliberate murderers, child rapists, traitors, etc was a punishment where the convicted had recourse to appeals – BUT they didn’t get two or three decades to string those appeals out before sentence was carried out.
Capitol punishment, with the sentence being carried out in a relevant time frame to when the crime was committed was an effective deterrent. And recidivism was nonexistent.
We are now at a point where capitol punishment MIGHT be carried out perhaps within 15 years or so of when the sentence was pronounced (which might be several years after the actual offense). The execution of death row convict last week was for a conviction back in 2007 for a heinous murder.
There is unlikely to be a deterrent effect when you mangle the criminal justice system similar to “defund the police” to delay carrying out the sentence to the point where the nation cannot see an immediate cause and effect between crime and carrying out the sentence.
Now those who have brought the justice system to where capitol punishment is a dead letter tell us that they have now proven it is ineffective, horribly expensive, a waste of resources, and thus should be abolished.
“Better a guilty man go free than an innocent man should hang” is an absurdity, whatever the crime and the sentence. The cost of sparing that innocent man ignores the creation of many future victims and costs through recidivism on the part of the guilty set free and those who commit crimes because they were not concerned about the possibility of the sentence.
Old Airborne Dog
Airborne, why did you change the position of your flag name to anonymous?
Airborne, why did you change the position of your flag name to anonymous?
Because it is faster to sign my name at the bottom than go through two step verification to log in for each post.
Now that I’ve answered your question, let’s see if you have a set of balls and a few inches of spine to answer mine:
Why do you only post and ask questions of others with the username “Anonymous”?
Got an excuse other than “Well, I’m a coward”?
Old Airborne Dog.
* SENATOR KEELEY
Does it matter?
* You’re just signing his name. Airborne was more surly.
As an Australian
Am I missing something here? – perhaps Johnathan or someone with American Legal Knowledge can help me here?
Trump Responds to Biden’s Decision to Commute Sentences of 37 Prisoners on Federal Death Row – Including Child Rapists and Killers
This is after Biden commuted the sentences of 1,500 people and pardoned 39 others – the biggest single-day act of clemency in history, the AP reported.
Biden also pardoned his son, Hunter, who was convicted of felony gun crimes after he promised he would respect the jury’s verdict
Special Counsel Robert Hur’s report on President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents states that Biden’s “diminished faculties” and “poor memory” would make it difficult for a jury to convict him of willfully retaining and disclosing classified materials.
Hur notes that Biden’s memory was “significantly limited” during interviews, and he forgot important details such as when he served as Vice President and when his son Beau died.
The report concludes that Biden’s age and memory issues would lead jurors to view him as a “sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” making it unlikely to secure a conviction.
This assessment implies that Biden’s advanced age and cognitive limitations would affect his ability to participate in a criminal trial, potentially rendering him unable to face court proceedings. However, it’s essential to note that this conclusion is based on the Special Counsel’s report and may be subject to interpretation and debate.
Biden Mental Competence Report
Multiple reports from reputable sources, including The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, suggest that President Joe Biden’s mental decline began shortly after taking office in 2021. The reports indicate that his aides and staff worked to conceal his diminishing mental and physical abilities, including:
If President Biden is Mentally Incompetent, how can the Pardons he has issued be Legal?
OBVIOUSLY a person is eligible for the US presidency with or without disabilities. Cognitive impairment is acceptable and if not it would be discrimination. In 2028 we are hoping to see our first Downs syndrome as a viable candidate! It’s a first! AND men CAN give birth! EQUALITY!
DUH
It is indeed the case that mental competence is not one of the qualifications listed in the constitution, and the courts have found repeatedly that no one can add to that list. ANYONE who is a natural born citizen, over the age of 35, and has lived in the USA for 14 years, can be elected president. If the people elect someone with a mental age of 10, that’s their business.
You’re a lying dogface pony soldier. Obama selected Mr. Potatohead in 2020 and he’s been baked and fried the whole time. The Chinese know what Biden is going to do before he does because they read Obama’s text messages.
First of all, Hur did NOT find that Biden is incompetent, but that he can convincingly play the incompetent, and would probably do so to a DC jury that was in any case inclined to be sympathetic to him and looking for an excuse to acquit him.
Second, he is clearly not incompetent at all times. We’ve seen him perform well on occasion, probably immediately after a nap. A recent report says that he has good days and bad ones. Given that, there would seem to be no way to prove that he was incompetent at the time he made the pardons. The only one who would have standing to challenge them would be Trump, and the onus of proof would be on him; I don’t see how he could possibly meet that onus.
* CONGRATS Barrack Hussain Obama on turning the United States of America into one giant ghetto.
Throw pearls to the swine…truer words were never spoken!
Now go beat up someone, set them on fire, rob them, run over them with a car, or like Hannibal lectern piece by piece UNTIL there’s nothing that works anymore. That’s how the sausage is made.
Yeah Joe, it’s ALL forgivable. No remorse necessary.
* The death penalty is merely the precursor to the real punishment. Gird your loins. You’re on the luge to Hell. Tell them the truth. Kill someone and you’re going to Hell. It’ll make prison look like Windsor castle.
Hear ye, hear ye.
@Dennis McIntyre: Jonathan: Among western democracies the US is the only one that still has the death penalty. In a civilized society the death penalty has no place. That’s because vengeance does not solve the problem of deadly violence.
If you grounded your five year old child a year after you discovered whatever it was they had done, would you then claim: “no civilized society allows parents to ground their children – it doesn’t solve the problem and is nothing but vengeance!”?
First Democrat neo-communists (that Dennis trolls here on behalf of) break something like immigration enforcement or criminal sentencing, and then they say it didn’t work and was inhumane anyways.
The only thing missing in Dennis’s Democrat Moralizing is any mention whatsoever of not just the victims of these monsters and the manner in how they were butchered – but their surviving family, friends, coworkers, etc. Democrats like Dennis only have empathy for Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, MS-13, Crips, Venezuelan drug cartels… the usual suspects.
Why would any rational adult believe any sanction for offenses would work when they aren’t predictable, consistent, and applied in a timely manner after the offense was committed? Carrying out capital punishment 20 years later on a violent thug whose violent lifestyle predicted he probably wouldn’t live to see age 50 is a deterrent?
Every heartless allegedly superior socialist who makes that claim takes great pains to mention that one subset the countries of the world has found that the death penalty is a powerful deterrent to it’s members committing offenses that would result in the death penalty. That would be criminal gangs.
So while Mexico as mentioned here has abolished the death penalty, Mexican drug cartels have found it such a powerful deterrent to it’s members violating the cartel laws that it is almost impossible for police to get a member to turn informant.
Ditto for outlaw biker gangs. Again, they will go to prison for long prison sentences rather than face the gang’s capitol punishment.
Same for the Russian gangs here and Canada up north which was also mentioned.
BTW, while the original Trudeau did abolish capitol punishment back in 1976, Dennis lied by omission by not telling you that when he did his “research”, he found that the Canadian population favors a return of capitol punishment. Just like Americans here are opposed to importing tens of millions of Illegal Alien criminals as our government does exactly that.
These are the retards that never consider that when you allow appeal after appeal, motion after motion, and the longest delaying tactics as possible, when an execution actually DOES take place 20 years later… yeah, maybe it doesn’t work as a deterrent! Imagine that!
Old Airborne Dog
* In reality the death penalty is sending a person to Hell sooner than otherwise. It’s where they’re going now or later.
The meaning of the death penalty was lost with atheism. It’s sending the killers to a place they belong.
“Deterrents” are for those who cannot be educated but can be trained. Most likely shock treatments can work just as well. Sort of a dog collar approach.
Then there’s malformation of the amygdala preventing a development of conscience. They can be trained, also.
It’s difficult to imagine what kind of mind those killers have. Joe felt empathetic. Bizarre.
* Those Christians know that there are fallen angels walking around. Not all are humans. Some are actual demons and you’ll know them by these heinous murders.
Thou shalt not kill references humans. Though shalt not kill humans. Demons are free to receive the death penalty. They really don’t care.
That clears it up.