Anthony Levandowski Pardoned

Re:Anthony Levandowski Pardoned by indymike on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @02:36PM (#25850911)

The presidential pardon has allowed our country to move on from problems that would lead to decades of prosecutions and counter-prosecutions as power changes party. Nixon and the civil war are both examples.

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Re:Anthony Levandowski Pardoned by eevilspock on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @03:04PM (#25851233)

Actually the "moving on" that Andrew Johnson enabled after the Civil War effectively terminated Reconstruction, launched nearly 100 years of Jim Crow, and gave permission for the South to regress (see "KKK").

In other words, Black people would beg to differ.

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Re:Anthony Levandowski Pardoned by cma on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @02:53PM (#25851113)

Congress already has tools for that (and the president has some sway through veto power): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnesty_law#United_States

There's no good reason to give all that power of unconditional pardons to one person.

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