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Stories about pardons are often about presidential power. But what about people on the other side of that grace? The Coulson family may never receive millions from a wrongful death lawsuit it won years ago.

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[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 19 points 3 hours ago

The presidential pardon does not reverse the civil wrongful death judgement. And the facts that came out from the criminal investigation and trial can still be used as evidence in a civil lawsuit.

The problem that the Coulson family is facing is that their defendant seems to be judgment proof: he either doesn't have the money, or he has structured things so they can't get at the money.

[–] bedwyr@piefed.ca 9 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

The president doesn't have the authority to cancel a civil jury verdict. So what?

[–] shirasho@feddit.online 9 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

He doesn't have the authority to do a lot of things, but nobody is going to stop him.

[–] bedwyr@piefed.ca 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Not on this, we aren't there yet. However the villain here could well find ways to not pay, that's not new at all. But no, prez isn't able to openly defy that part of the Constitution at this point.

He won't try either, he took a bribe to pardon this dick. That's what happened.

[–] orbitz@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago

Oh so allowing the president to sell pardons, wreck the global economy and world power structure is fine? Okay that last part may not be awful but it's just happenstance if it works out better if the old fool ends up with a better outcome. Except enriching himself nothing was planned. That's all he doing. That's it. He doesn't care about squat besides it.

The constitution may as well be a strip of toilet paper at this point, cause the US has an adminstration only looking out for themselves and how to be rich without a care how it impacts anyone else, in their own or other countries.

So whatever he's not allowed to do he'll try it before his term is done he did it his first and he has fewer responsible people around to tell him no now. Cause that's also what project 2025 wants, to break the world so they can be their own lords over shit cause they're billionaires.

Be like Snow Crash (the worst of the cyberpunk outcomes of what I've read) if we let them get away with it.

[–] switcheroo@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago

Bribes are accepted at the office of Mar-a-Lardo.

Or, if you choose, you can flatter the clown and fluff the mushroom.