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The immunity regarding official acts pertains to judicial proceedings. An impeachment is a legislative proceeding. While it uses judicial terms like “trial” it is not the same thing and can not directly result in criminal conviction or sentencing.
An impeachment conviction results in removal from office. The previous impeachment proceedings did not result in a conviction.
(Edit for additional information: While an impeachment uses terms like “trial” and “conviction” it is not a judicial proceeding. It is entirely a legislative proceeding which is formatted to resemble a judicial one, but is not bound to judicial procedure and it also can not produce a criminal conviction or sentence.)
Or more recently (and I suppose in the same wheelhouse as the topic at hand), Hunter Biden’s pardon was a blanket pardon for any potential crimes that may have been committed on January 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024. It wasn’t just for what he had specifically been charged with at the time.
I was just pointing out the way on a limb theoretical to cover all my bases. The Presidential pardon could in theory be used on a mass scale (and it has been in the past) but in realistic terms, no it won’t happen. That said, inside the realm of some sort of reality weed will still be a factor on 4473 until the law either removes the question about illegal drugs, or weed is made federally legal. That’s not something controlled solely by the executive branch.
To bolster your point, Andrew Johnson issued a blanket pardon to all Confederate soldiers in regards to treason and insurrection. Not every individual former Confederate soldier had been convicted of these crimes, but still gained immunity.
That question is required by HR 1025 (“The Brady Act”). To get rid of weed as a factor, there would either need to be a change to the form requirement, or weed to be made federally legal and thus not an illegal substance. The requirement is not an ATF determination.
Joe Biden could theoretically pardon all people in violation of this, but I wouldn’t hold my breath for a blanket universal pardon involving guns and weed together.
Christmas is canceled.
I keep seeing ads for those AI tools that re-write work emails for you, to give them a “better tone”. Does the world really need an automated tool to help people with workplace posturing?
I find this even funnier knowing there are AI products out there to summarize incoming emails so you don’t have to read the whole thing. We live in a world with software to write emails nobody cares enough to write themselves, to be summarized by other software for people who don’t care enough to read them.
I know, I know we are on lemmy, where all judges are wrong and evil, but this actually seems pretty cut and dry.
Act No. 320 of 1937 (“Pennsylvania Election Code”). Section 1306-D:
(a) General rule.–At any time after receiving an official mail-in ballot, but on or before eight o’clock P.M. the day of the primary or election, the mail-in elector shall, in secret, proceed to mark the ballot only in black lead pencil, indelible pencil or blue, black or blue-black ink, in fountain pen or ball point pen, and then fold the ballot, enclose and securely seal the same in the envelope on which is printed, stamped or endorsed “Official Election Ballot.” This envelope shall then be placed in the second one, on which is printed the form of declaration of the elector, and the address of the elector’s county board of election and the local election district of the elector. The elector shall then fill out, date and sign the declaration printed on such envelope.
Abridged:
At any time after receiving an official mail-in ballot, but on or before eight o’clock P.M. the day of the primary or election the mail-in elector shall […] then fill out, date and sign the declaration printed on such envelope.
The “correct date” is any date before or on the day of the election, according to the code. A judge reads and interprets the written law, and this seems like a simple read.
The counter argument to the apparently unanimous reading of the law by all parties presented in court hinged on: "Pennsylvania’s constitution, which says that elections in the state ‘shall be free and equal’ " making the law itself unconstitutional, which I’m not surprised wasn’t very persuasive. Ballot envelopes without written dates were presumably treated equally (as opposed to being treated differently based on the vote cast) and the state didn’t interfere with the ability to fill out the date. The rules were laid down and everyone who followed them had their vote counted equally.
I can already hear people in the comments screaming about how they don’t like it. The standards for the mail-in ballots have been there since 1937 and nobody had a problem with them until right this moment when it looked like letting them slide might flip a close election. If you still don’t like them, pressure the legislature, not the judges. There’s not a ton of wiggle room in how to read the code.
BY GAWD THE DNC IS (rhetorically) TORN IN HALF!
I think to say something broadly popular with the voting base and then forget about it after the election. Decent plan TBH.
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I think those categories are so broad that they disguise how many systems exist.
I don’t think I’d for example call DND extremely crunchy when systems like GURPS exist. And GURPS also has derived systems like Traveller.
Then you’ve got the various Gamma World editions that vary from “basically just reskinned DND” to “I took a bunch of ketamine while watching math tutorials”.
You’ve got insane systems like FATAL, where even wholly putting aside the gross content, the actual system is actually insane in how it insists on statting basically everything. EVERYTHING. So it takes like ten hours to create a character.
More playable you’ve got games like Inquisitor which are almost more skirmish wargamey in rules and require the players to push the RPG elements themselves. Yet at the same time the homebrew Inquisitor community has popularized “Inquisimunda” rules to make the game even more wargame like. Is that more or less crunchy? Kinda both I guess.
You’ve got sibling systems like Call Of Cthulhu and Pulp Cthulhu which people sometimes interchange depending on the session or they mix-n-match to make some kind of hybrid homebrew creation.