{"id":29375,"date":"2025-02-08T16:30:03","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T16:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/popularnews71.net\/?p=29375"},"modified":"2025-02-08T16:31:01","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T16:31:01","slug":"schiff-considering-rejecting-biden-pardon-for-j6-committee-amid-blowback-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/popularnews71.net\/?p=29375","title":{"rendered":"Schiff Considering Rejecting Biden Pardon For J6 Committee Amid Blowback"},"content":{"rendered":"
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California Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff is considering rejecting a pardon that former President Joe Biden issued to all the people involved in the Congressional investigation into the January 6 riot, including himself.<\/p>\n

During an interview on NBC\u2019s \u201cMeet The Press,\u201d Schiff spoke about potential \u201cblowback\u201d from accepting a pardon because he spent years claiming \u2014 when President Donald Trump was serving in his first term \u2014 that accepting a pardon was an \u201cadmission of guilt.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd of course President Biden did issue pardons to members of the January 6th Committee. You were on the January 6th Committee. It came after President Trump said that he thought the entire January 6th Committee should go to jail. What\u2019s interesting, Senator, you had been quite vocal. You didn\u2019t want President Biden to give you a pardon. You went so far as to convey that to the White House. So, what are you going to do about the fact that you\u2019ve now been given a pardon? Are you going to accept it, or are you planning to look for some type of legal recourse to reject it?\u201d Welker asked Schiff.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re looking at it. I\u2019m not sure there\u2019s much to be done given that it went to the whole committee. This is also, I think, unprecedented. You know, in the first instance it was a result of the president threatening \u2013 wrongfully threatening to go after people who oversee this misconduct in a legitimate committee process. Nevertheless, we\u2019ll have to look at this as a committee to see if there\u2019s anything to be done,\u201d Schiff responded.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat does that mean, you\u2019re going to \u2018look at it\u2019? Does that mean that you\u2019ll make a decision collectively about whether to accept these pardons?\u201d Welker asked.<\/p>\n

Schiff responded: \u201cWe have tried to operate together as a committee. And I think the law is unclear because this is, frankly, uncharted territory, whether pardons of this nature are like a law in which you\u2019re powerless to say yea or nay, or there\u2019s something different.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is quite murky. But it sounds like what you\u2019re saying is, \u2018We\u2019ll look at it,\u2019 but most likely, you\u2019re going to have to accept this pardon whether you like it or not,\u201d Welker said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt may not be actionable one way or another unless there is actually some kind of bogus effort to prosecute the committee,\u201d Schiff responded.<\/p>\n

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