It’s been less than a week since a mob whipped up by President Donald Trump attacked the US Capitol in his name, and Republicans in Congress are already telling Americans to move on. What’s needed now is not punishment for insurrection, they say, but rather “healing” for a country rent by partisan fissures.
“To deliver a better America, partisans of all stripes must first unite as Americans and show that a peaceful transition has occurred,” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said in a Friday statement. “Impeaching the president . will only divide our country more.”
But there has not been a “peaceful transition.” Five people are dead, and dozens injured, because the president’s supporters attacked Congress in an effort to disrupt its confirmation of President-elect Joe Biden’s victory.
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President commutes sentence of Miami Beach’s ‘King of Medicare fraud’
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NORTH MIAMI, Fla. – Philip Esformes was known as the King of Medicare fraud with the epicenter of his swindling happening here in South Florida.
On Tuesday night, Esformes didn’t exactly become a free man, but he did get out of jail.
He was one of 20 people granted clemency by President Donald J. Trump, who gave the 52-year-old a get-out-of-jail-free card.
Well, the clemency does not mean is is completely free .
Caroline Mala Corbin, a professor of constitutional law at the University of Miami, explains:
“A pardon completely eliminate the punishment, a commutation only reduces it.”