The Wee-Beasties singer Richard Haskins battled prison time, alcoholism and health issues. He's still got enough fight in him to get his record pardoned.
crime from your record, according to a statement from the board, compared to a state pardon, which is an official order for forgiveness. is there a distinction between a federal pardon and estate pardon as far as you know? it relates to the civil rights that somebody has in state law sometimes. but for trump s purposes, if his goal is to avoid prison, or to avoid this on his record, for whatever reason, i don t see a material difference between the two things from his perspective. thank you for joining us, quinn. as you say, this is uncharted territory, but it is useful to delve into it. we are here now. quinn yeargain it s a constitutional law expert and assistant professor of law at why no university. quick programming note, tonight, i would be hosting special coverage. join msnbc s maggie hassan, ayman, alicia menendez, and reverend al sharpton, and made for analysis of the gop reckoning, with republicans facing several moments facing several charges and the first debate on wedn
trial any time soon and obviously as has been mentioned if you bring a case with 19 defendants you re aware that you can t go to trial really quickly the way jack smith is trying to do and likely will be able to do in d.c. i think we re going to see motions to remove the case to federal court. we saw donald trump try to do that in manhattan. that didn t succeed. but georgia has different facts so that will be litigated. we could see donald trump trying to invoke the new law that s coming into effect that permits georgia to remove fani willis from the case. we could see claims that the president, former president is immune from this case, i mean, all sorts of arguments to try to slow this down. the issue, though, of a state pardon is a little bit complicated because at least
under current law, the georgia governor does not have that power, unlike many, many other states, instead there is a board that makes those decisions and it s required that you serve the sentence in order to be eligible for that board to give you a pardon, now, all of these laws could change. who is on the board could change, but it s not something that a new president trump can count on especially if you have a governor who is maybe one of the witnesses against you in that trial and is certainly no friend of yours politically, so that s something that, yes, it makes sense that he will try to delay the case, but i m not sure he s going to be able to bank on getting a state pardon. andrew weissman and glenn
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