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New Campaign Urges Biden to Commute Sentence of 'Public Hero' Who Leaked Trump Tax Data (www.commondreams.org)

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Patriotic Millionaires and Revolving Door Project are leading the push for Biden to reduce IRS whistleblower Charles Littlejohn's prison term.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think so far his case is still at the state level, so a presidential pardon won't happen unless it gets escalated to federal. So I think he'd need Hochul to issue the pardon, if it were to happen.

If he crossed state lines to do it, that may come with federal charges, and then a presidential pardon becomes a possibility.

[–] takeda 2 points 1 day ago

From what I understand even if somehow the case would travel to federal court, apparently that still wouldn't change who could invoke a pardon.