Right-Wingers Want Trump To Issue More Pardons — And They're Incredibly Controversial

Make no mistake—the Derek Chauvin conviction represents the defining achievement of the Woke movement in American politics. The country cannot turn the page on that dark, divisive, and racist era without righting this terrible wrong.”

Shapiro asserted

It would be incredibly controversial, ... but I think that it’s absolutely necessary.”

Shapiro said in a Tuesday segment about the pardon petition on his popular eponymous web podcast

Andrew McCarthyformer Assistant U.S. attorney and Fox News contributor

State prisons, populated by many inmates associated with violent gangs, can be extremely perilous for former police officers who worked in the state,

writes McCarthy

It would hurt us. It is so personal. We saw our brother tortured to death.”

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Keith Ellisonminnesota Attorney General

The only conceivable purpose would be to express yet more disrespect for George Floyd and more disrespect for the rule of law,

Ellison said

Trump has no power to pardon Chauvin’s state conviction. None.”

He stressed

Given the significant nature of the criminal case that [Chauvin] was convicted of, and given that the discovery that [he] seeks could support [the pathologist's] opinion of how Mr. Floyd died, the Court finds that there is good cause to allow [Chauvin] to take the discovery,

Magnuson wrote upon making his decision

I can't go to my grave with what I know

He and Chauvin began communicating in February of last year year, at which time the Topeka resident told the Associated Press

George Floyd was high on fentanyl; he had a significant pre-existing heart condition,

Shapiro said

Richard Painterformer White House ethics adviser and law professor

Derek Chauvin's Minnesota conviction cannot be pardoned by the president—only the federal conviction can be. Although not a factor in his conviction, Chauvin's crime clearly involved racism. A pardon will rightly be seen as racially motivated."

Richard Painter, a law professor and former chief White House ethics lawyer, wrote on X

Ben Shapiroconservative commentator

Something to think about."

Musk responded to a post from Ben Shapiro, the conservative commentator, about the initiative with a simple but provocative remark

Derek Chauvin, for large segments of even the tape that was shown [at his trial], had his knee on George Floyd’s shoulder or back, not on his neck,

Shapiro continued