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Don’t Pardon Michael Byrd. Indict Him Instead.

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MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 2025
The dark menacing unmoving iceberg of state power is an illusion…
– Karen Kwiatkowski, “Breaking Totalitarianism” [2019]

 

HORNBERGER’S BLOG
January 6, 2025
Don’t Pardon Michael Byrd. Indict Him Instead.
The Washington, D.C., establishment is, needless to say, up in arms over President-elect Trump’s plans to pardon the protestors who stormed the Capitol on January 6 four years ago. After hundreds of criminal prosecutions and sometimes long jail sentences meted out by federal judges, Trump’s pardons will be upending not only the entire prosecution-and-conviction scheme but also the ludicrous official narrative that has …
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