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Originally Posted by GGG
There are some jurisdictional arguments about who gets to try a person if it is both a federal crime or a state crime. I believe that you can’t be convicted by both the state and the Fed. I also believe the fed has priority.
So I would assume that Trumps argument would be that the State Crimes are actually Federal crimes which he was pardoned for and it would become a very interesting Supreme Court case.
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That would be quite the argument, because how could you plausibly argue that you are being indicted/convicted by an entity that has done no such thing and under statutes that were not pled by the entity that actually did indict/convict under statutes that the other entity did not enact and cannot apply?
Additionally, I guess it would make some sense for the small government/states rights Republicans to try to claim that a State crime is really a Federal crime, given how they flip flop on pretty much everything when it is in their immediate interest to do so.