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Missouri Supreme Court allows Marcellus Williams execution to proceed, governor won't intervene (www.kcur.org)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The president can't intervene at the state level. From americanbar.org:

A U.S. president has broad but not unlimited powers to pardon. For example, a president cannot pardon someone for a state crime.

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

I think that's why they included the "fuck you, official act" part.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The president's "official act" would be issuing the pardon. The referenced Supreme Court decision just means it would not be a "crime" for the president to issue said pardon, not that the pardon would stand.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

That's true, so I guess it would need to be having the military intervene to extract him, so that you don't need to worry about what a state court says.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

The official act could be to use the national guard to rescue a US citizen from wrongful imprisonment, but that's the kind of thing that racist Republicans would start a civil war over in the name of "states' rights".