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A mockery of justice
Kronen Zeitung als bevorzugte Google-Quelle hinzufügen We are already used to a lot of somersaults in American democracy, but what has happened recently in the area of the rule of law is really hard to digest. We are talking about the scandalous pardon orgies of Presidents Biden and Trump.
One after the other: Biden pardons his son, who is under serious suspicion. Removing a family member from the arm of justice - that's not on!
But Biden went one better. Shortly before handing over office, he pardoned his entire family clan in advance (!). The reason: protection from Trump's revenge.
It had already been bad enough in 1974 when Nixon had made a pardon from his successor a condition for his resignation. But Trump crowned the mockery of justice: He granted blanket pardons to all 1,500 prisoners of the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021, including violent criminals with blood on their hands. Five Capitol security guards were killed at the time.
This abuse of the monarchical right of pardon by US presidents shines a harsh light on the decay of the democratic separation of powers in the USA. Pardoning one's own clientele completely destroys the already shaky trust in the judiciary. Never before has the rule of law been so endangered in the USA.
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