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The state of Minnesota can wait until there is a more friendly administration before bringing charges, since there is not statute of limitations on murder. Also, the supremacy clause does not protect murderer Johnathan Ross from civil litigation.
You attached that TikTok-like video without properly reading the comment you were responding to.
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Let's address @someguy3@lemmy.world 's edit below. He is not wrong, but he is being overly defeatist and thus ignoring several key points.
There were two parts to this. First is criminal and second is civil, you even used the word "also" to separate them.
Criminal: Again, Trump can preemtively pardon him and all of ICE. And the supremacy clause will be in play determined by the court. That's the whole point,
Civil: I don't think civil charges are what anyone wants here. If you are satisfied with possible civil charges, you are missing the entire big picture. Like seriously you think possible civil charges is going to fix ICE shooting people in the face? JFC. I didn't respond to it because you and everyone else should want criminal charges. Ciao.
Again, PEDOnald cannot pardon state charges. Minnesota can still charge Ross with murder even if he gets a presidential pardon. Supremacy clause doesn't prevent states from using their own charges just because the feds refused to charge him with anything
The point @someguy3@lemmy.world was making is that the federal government can pull any state charges to a federal agent into federal court. If the federal judge finds that the federal agent was not acting in their capacity as a federal agent when the crime was committed, then the state prosecution can continue. That's a tough obstacle to overcome under the current administration.
My point is that murder has no statute of limitations and Minnesota can wait to file charges until a non-fascist administration is in power. That could be in four years or in twenty. Again, no statute of limitations.
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pardons don't work for state crimes
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