George Soros-backed Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner is considering filing state charges against January 6 participants who were pardoned by President Trump.
On Monday, President Trump, in one of his first actions in office, issued pardons to over 1,500 January 6 defendants.
As anticipated, a Democrat District Attorney is now seeking to file state charges against those pardoned for January 6.
Larry Krasner is targeting Pennsylvania residents pardoned on January 6 with state charges. He faces a steep legal challenge due to double jeopardy laws.
According to CNN’s Marshall Cohen: “Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner, a progressive Democrat, is exploring state charges against pardoned US Capitol rioters from PA. This would face significant legal hurdles, like double jeopardy. But he told me, ‘you can have a state prosecution for conduct that was not fully encompassed in the federal prosecution.'”
Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort faced state charges in 2019, anticipating a potential pardon from Trump.
In March 2019, then-Manhattan DA Cy Vance announced state charges against Paul Manafort just minutes after the former Trump campaign chairman received his second federal sentence.
The Communists in the Southern District of New York (SDNY) hatched a plot to go around “double jeopardy” laws. This way Manafort would still serve prison time if Trump were to issue a presidential pardon.
Manafort pleaded not guilty and his lawyers asked for the case to be thrown out because of “double jeopardy” laws and a judge dismissed the mortgage fraud case in the SDNY because it overlapped with the federal charges.
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