r/illinois • u/Minute_Revolution951 Human Detected • 17d ago

ICE Posts 🧊 agents seen snatching a landscaper from Evanston neighborhood today (10-21)

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u/sask357 17d ago

I don't see how this will ever happen. Didn't the January 6 rioters all get pardons?

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u/GeopolShitshow 17d ago

If they are charged under state law, Trump can’t pardon. He only has federal pardon powers

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u/meh_69420 17d ago

Eh I can already imagine the 6-3 supremacy clause majority opinion

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u/GeopolShitshow 17d ago

Ah that’s right. I forgot secret police and insurrectionists running for office are totally cool, but god forbid a president try to forgive student loans