robocall@lemmy.worldM to Luigi Mangione@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoLuigi in court todaylemmy.worldimagemessage-square186linkfedilinkarrow-up1984arrow-down110
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minus-squareWoodScientist@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·2 months agoThat isn’t how government works.
minus-squareArmchairAce1944@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·2 months agoIf government ‘worked’ then nothing Trump has done would have been done. It turns out you can just do stuff.
minus-squareWoodScientist@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·2 months agoThat’s not how this works. A mayor can’t pardon someone for state crimes.
minus-squareWoodScientist@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoWhat makes you think a mayor can pardon state level charges?
minus-squareHadriscus@jlai.lulinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoNothing in particular. Note that I am not the person you replied to originally. I found that your message did not offer an alternative after shutting off the presumption (that Mamdani had that kind of power), so I am encouraging you to suggest one
minus-squareWoodScientist@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoThere’s providing importance context, and then there’s wasting the reader’s time. Informing people that a mayor is not a governor is the latter.
That isn’t how government works.
If government ‘worked’ then nothing Trump has done would have been done. It turns out you can just do stuff.
That’s not how this works. A mayor can’t pardon someone for state crimes.
How does government work ?
What makes you think a mayor can pardon state level charges?
Nothing in particular. Note that I am not the person you replied to originally. I found that your message did not offer an alternative after shutting off the presumption (that Mamdani had that kind of power), so I am encouraging you to suggest one
There’s providing importance context, and then there’s wasting the reader’s time. Informing people that a mayor is not a governor is the latter.