Trego's Mountain Ear

I admit that I thought pardoning Hunter was a bit excessive -I’m familiar with the ATF rules that call for five years in the big house, and wasn’t too impressed.  Still, it only took a couple of weeks for Slow Joe to come up with a pardon that makes Hunter look positively deserving. 

Victims of Crimes of Those Granted Clemency Furious With Biden  Click the link – here’s the copied teaser to show why you should:

“Former Luzerne County Judge Michael T. Conahan

Conahan is one of many judges brought to justice in the Kids-for-Cash scandal in Pennsylvania.

They received $2.1 million in kickbacks for sending juveniles to two private, for-profit detention centers:

Conahan pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy charges and was sentenced in 2011 to 17½ years in prison. However, he petitioned the courts for a “compassionate release” during the COVID-19 pandemic, writing that he was “in grave danger of not only contracting the virus, but of dying from the virus.”

He was released to home confinement in Florida under federal supervision in June 2020.”

Nothing personal – but a judge who sent juveniles to private slammers and took kickbacks for it is worse than Hunter Biden.  I can’t think of anything lower than a corrupt judge screwing kids over.  Or we can look at this bastard:

“Former Cuyahoga County Commissioner Jimmy Dimora

Former Cuyahoga County Commissioner Jimmy Dimora landed in prison due to his involvement “in a massive pay-to-play scheme” in Ohio.

The FBI and IRS investigated and almost “60 politicians, government officials and contractors” were convicted of granting contracts “in exchange for money, trips, gifts and favors.” Wow:

Prosecutors said Dimora made about $450,000 off bribes, including trips to Las Vegas, prostitutes and an infamous outdoor stone-fired pizza oven installed in the backyard of his Independence home.

Dimora was initially sentenced in 2012 to 28 years in what was, at the time, one of the Ohio’s most expansive corruption cases in history.

That sentence in 2022 was cut to 25 years in prison after a U.S. Supreme Court decision in a different case that clarified the definition of what constitutes a bribe under federal law.

Dimora has been on home confinement since 2023. It should have ended in 2030.”

As Kipling wrote over a century ago:

”If print is print or words are words, the learned Court perpends: —
We are not ruled by murderers, but only — by their friends.”