On Tuesday, Elizabeth [Soto] was sentenced to 50 years in federal prison; Ines’s sentencing is set for 1 July. All because, as she put it: “They didn’t like my book club.” Her laugh doesn’t quite reach her eyes.
After a three-week trial, a [Texas] jury found eight of nine protesters guilty of “providing material support to terrorists”, among other crimes. For the Sotos, this “material support” included owning a “printing press” used to print anarchist zines and being part of a leftist book club, the federal government argued. The couple had already left the scene by the time guns were drawn. All eight of the defendants sentenced so far have received unusually harsh sentences – 30 to 100 years – essentially life in prison.
They need to be on the lips of anyone who wants the Democratic party’s nomination for president, immediately preceded by “I hereby pledge on my first day in office to immediately pardon”
It was a state trial. The president has no pardon power over state crimes.
Nope, just quoting from the above article (bolds added),