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Biden needs to pardon this guy right after elections
I would rather depend on congress to protect whistleblowers and/or disclose finances for candidates than set precedent for pardoning people who illegally obtain and publish private information of political rivals. Both seem pretty unlikely, for now.
He won't. Man drives me nuts.
If Biden pardoned the guy, it would be seen as a very partisan action and would be seized upon in absolutely no uncertain terms by the GOP. They get their base in a lather over shit they just made up, imagine what they'd do with something that actually happened.
Ok I imagine them doing the absolute same shit they do with their imagined scandals.
It's not like they are holding back waiting for something real.
And btw Trump himself ordered many partisan pardons.
So I don't see any downside to pardoning this guy right now.
It's not like he hurt anybody.
He leaked something that should have been public in the first place.
And that judge is obviously deranged if they think, this is even close to the same level as a violent attack on the capital to hinder a change of democratic power.
That's why you do it after the election. Biden only has 4 more years anyway. GOP can't do anything. Pardons are something a president does, not impeachable.