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

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JoeyJoeJoeJr@lemmy.ml
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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.

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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.

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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”.

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