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People were free to choose from a list of candidates. That's equally "legitimate" as most primaries.

The dictionary definition is not the legal definition.

A pardon can be issued to anyone, and it prevents any government punishment for the activities mentioned in the pardon.

It does not matter who, if anyone, considers them "at fault".

No, pardons do not imply guilt.

Pardons can be issued when someone is believed to be innocent of any wrongdoing.

Only if they hosted someone who distributed the app or update. Which nobody is doing.

The law actually bans "providing internet hosting services to enable the distribution, maintenance, or updating of such foreign adversary controlled application for users within the land or maritime borders of the United States."

If Google and Apple aren't distributing, maintaining, or updating TikTok then it follows that nobody is providing internet hosting services enabling distribution, maintenance, or updating of TikTok.

If the DNC couldn't stop Marianne Williamson from running against Biden, then they couldn't stop anyone.

And the DNC doesn't run debates, they are generally run by the media networks.

I don't know what you're talking about. I already linked the results of the 2024 California primary.

And of course there was also a California primary in 2020. Not only that, Sanders won.

Maybe you didn't see the presidential primary on your ballot? If not you should have gotten another ballot, because millions of other Californians voted in the presidential primary.

And Sanders wasn't running in 2024. He is not required to run in order to hold a primary.

There was a California primary in 2024.

• Biden won 3,207,687 votes
• Williamson won 146,356 votes

Other candidates included

• Eban Cambridge
• Gabriel Cornejo
• Stephen P Lyons
• Armando "Mando" Perez-Serrato
• Dean Phillips

The SCOTUS has already answered your question:

The power of pardon conferred by the Constitution upon the President is unlimited except in cases of impeachment. It extends to every offence known to the law, and may be exercised at any time after its commission, either before legal proceedings are taken or during their pendency, or after conviction and judgment.

You are pardoned for an activity, not a particular charge.

If it were the other way around, then prosecutors would simply refile the case with different charges.

Yes, the president can pardon people who haven't yet been charged with a crime.

This isn't new, for example Carter pardoned all draft dodgers regardless of whether they had yet been charged.

Biden won his primary.

“If somebody wants to eat that stuff, they’re welcome to it — they’re just not gonna find it in Nebraska grocery stores.”

So they are not, in fact, "welcome to it".

It's not a law, it's a Constitutional amendment. So passage by Congress isn't enough, it needs to be ratified by the states too. And it wasn't ratified by enough states (38) at the time.

But almost 50 years later, Virginia became the 38th state to ratify it. Are they too late? Biden just said they are not too late, but this question will probably have to go through the courts.

Ukraine doesn't want to get in the middle of US political spatting.

Ukraine was literally being blamed for exacerbating the LA fire damage.

They were in the middle of our politics whether they liked it or not.

Being a republic has nothing to do with whether ordinary people hold power. For example in Plato's Republic, power was exclusively held by philosophers because ordinary people were unwise and could not be trusted.

Home insurers aren't going under. They are simply going to leave California.

I don't believe Syria ever styled itself "Democratic". But the Syrian Republic was certainly a republic.

For that matter, so was the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

A republic is simply a nation with no monarch. If you don't believe me ask any Canadian, as they are constantly debating whether to officially leave the British crown and become a republic.

Jury nullification means acquittal, and you cannot retry someone after acquittal.

Also prosecutors generally cannot appeal an acquittal.