• morgan423@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Except that he could be convicted before the election in New York and Georgia.

    POTUS has no pardon power over state crimes.

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        1 year ago

        Right, that wasn’t in question. I was responding to this poster saying that if he won the election, he’d pardon himself and not go to prison. I was just reminding him that Trump would not have that option for state crimes. So he’d be using an 8x6 cell instead of the Oval Office.

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      Yes - obviously if he does get sent to prison he cannot be elected president. I don’t think there’s precedent for this, so it’d probably go to the supreme court too, but since convicts can’t vote I ASSUME they can’t run.