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Trump pardons Tina Peters, but Colorado officials say he can’t reverse state convictions | TRAIL MIX
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President Donald Trump said late on Dec. 11 that he had issued a pardon for Tina Peters, the former Mesa County clerk convicted of orchestrating a scheme to breach secure election equipment, though Colorado officials and legal experts immediately countered that the president’s broad pardon powers don’t extend to state-level crimes like those committed by…
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BIDLACK | L’état, c’est moi
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When France’s King Louis XIV uttered the famous words “I am the State,” he was stating what he saw as obviously true – that as the absolute monarch, chosen (at least in his mind) by God, he was above any law made by mortal man. He asserted that he held all political and governmental authority. Scary.…
