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Preemptive pardons?
By PETER GILDERSON
Wed,01/29/25-4:02PM , 499 Reads 5,970 Statewide
At the last possible moment Joe Biden gave a preemptive pardon to his entire family. Perhaps this delay was to prevent Trump from including that information on the pardon in his inaugural speech. But it was more probably to hide it in all the hoopla of that day.
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Never again
By JAY WIENER
Wed,01/29/25-3:56PM , 537 Reads 5,530 Statewide
Sitting down to reflect upon Grace Elizabeth Hale’s memoir “In the Pines” — named the best Mississippi History Book by the Mississippi Historical Society last year — I encountered “A House at Auschwitz Opens Its Doors to a Chilling Past” in The New York Times:
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Massive pardons could spur future Presidential crimes
By LUTHER MUNFORD
Wed,01/29/25-3:50PM , 379 Reads 9,557 Statewide
President Joe Biden said that, in order to preserve respect for the law, he had granted pardons to innocent persons candidate Donald Trump said should be prosecuted. Biden rightly reasoned that Congressman Bennie Thompson and former Congresswoman Liz Cheney had performed a laudable public service when they led the January 6 committee.
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Adopt early voting
Wed,01/29/25-3:44PM , 287 Reads 2,915 Statewide
In another election-related matter, the Mississippi Legislature is taking another look at expanding the option of early voting.
Mississippi is one of only three states that does not allow no-excuse early voting. The only people who can vote early in Mississippi are those who meet the criteria for receiving an absentee ballot.
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