The senator spoke to NBC News' "Meet the Press" after President-elect Donald Trump said members of the House Jan. 6 committee "should go to jail."

Summary

Sen. Bernie Sanders urged President Biden to “very seriously” consider pre-emptive pardons for members of the Jan. 6 Committee after Trump threatened to jail them.

Trump has also pledged to pardon convicted Jan. 6 rioters, calling their imprisonment unjust.

Sanders condemned Trump’s remarks as authoritarian, while some Republicans, including Sen. Lindsey Graham, disagreed with Trump’s proposal.

Committee members, including Adam Schiff and Bennie Thompson, defended their work, calling Trump’s comments an attack on democracy and the rule of law.

  • TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee
    3·
    10 hours ago

    Definitely, it would at least establish a precedent if they aren’t held, which is something Trump would then not be able to abuse.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      1·
      7 hours ago

      Good point. It’s win/win (so Biden probably won’t do it).

      But either they hold, and we don’t have to watch these people get put in prison or possibly executed for doing their jobs correctly, or they don’t, and it sets the precedent that pre-emptive pardons don’t work, and therefore they’re not an option for Trump.

      Not that precedent has stopped these people before…