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Matt Gaetz sought a preemptive pardon from Trump, but the request was never seriously considered Rep. Matt Gaetz sought a preemptive pardon for himself near the end of President Donald Trump’s term and made his request known to someone outside the White House Counsel’s office, according to two people familiar with the matter, but Gaetz’s request was never seriously considered by the White House because they decided preemptive pardons were off the table. In the final days of Trump’s term...

Rep. Gaetz sought pardon from Trump in final weeks amid DOJ probe Gaetz reportedly sought blanket pardons for himself and several congressional allies from the Trump White House and was denied. Donald Trump for potential sex crimes for which he is currently under investigation.  The bombshell report ran in  The New York Times yesterday and made Gaetz a trending topic again on social media.  Republican Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz (above) reportedly asked the Donald Trump White House for a pre-em...

The Atlantic Getty / The Atlantic Bryson Gray, a 29-year-old rapper and Donald Trump superfan from North Carolina, wants to make one thing clear: It was a group of the president’s most loyal supporters that rioted in the U.S. Capitol building on Wednesday, and nobody else. When I spoke with Gray yesterday, he said he had been “too late” to get inside the Capitol itself with the rest of the mob, which broke windows and chanted through the halls of Congress in an ultimately futile attempt t...

SUMMARY: The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (“ATF”) is announcing the withdrawal of a notice and request for comments entitled “Objective Factors for Classifying Weapons with ‘Stabilizing Braces’,” that was published on December 18, 2020. Upon further consultation with the Department of Justice and the Office of the Deputy Attorney General, ATF is withdrawing, pending further Department of Justice review, the notice and request for comments entitled “Objecti...

The rise. since we passed stand your ground, the murder rate has declined every year. i think the charge is inaccurate that stand your ground is disproportionately had a negative impact on african-americans. african-americans have asserted the stand your ground defense more than any other racial or ethnic group and by volume, african-americans have been more successful at asserting the stand your ground defense than any other group. i am of the belief that if someone is attacked they shouldnt ha...

Now, i dont take the position that that doesnt mean that our stand your ground law didnt have some affect. i dont think the lack of clarity as a result of stand your ground. i think it is the facts that arose in those cases that the jury wasnt able to reach a verdict on beyond a reasonable doubt. again, we tilt every advantage to the accused. one of those is that all jurors have to agree if someone is to be convicted. here, they didnt, on that charge. again, michael dunn is going to spend the re...