All 47 members of the Senate Democratic caucus have introduced a resolution to condemn President Donald Trump’s mass pardons of the January 6 insurrectionists.
The resolution, which also includes Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Angus King (I-ME), the independents who caucus with Democrats, initially stood at 46 sponsors, reported CBS News’ Scott MacFarlane.
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) had vowed to be a lone Democratic Party holdout, but later joined his colleagues to support it, according to NBC News’ Frank Thorp and Kate Santaliz.
One of the main sponsors, Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA), will seek unanimous consent to pass the resolution later this week. If passed, it would not have any legally binding effect, but would voice the Senate’s disapproval of Trump’s action.
“Pres. Trump’s day one agenda was letting violent criminals who beat police officers out of prison,” stated Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN) “These are people who planned an insurrection, assaulted police officers with metal batons, fire extinguishers, wooden planks and even admitted to these crimes and pled guilty in court.”
Trump had repeatedly pledged to issue pardons for January 6 defendants, whom he has repeatedly called “hostages” and baselessly claimed did not receive fair due process.
I don’t see a link between the title and the article or link provided. Maybe I’m going blind.
The only reference I can find on this is a piece by MSNBC, but they gave no details.
I think one of the Jan 6 pardons was the person the article was referring to. Again using that as a dog whistle. It had nothing to do with the actual pardon.
Trump pardoned a Jan 6’er, who happens to be accused of child porn. The child porn accusation wasn’t pardoned. I think that is what was meant.
If we are to believe Vance’s statement about the pardons being done on a “case-by-case” basis, DT knew this man had pending child sex charges? I like to see the administration get out of this pickle.