Pardons are awesome and all if people want to accede to the fact that they are accepting that they guilty. That’s part of the gig. Yeah, you’re out of jail without ramifications, but it’s kind of like being an affirmative action hire. Might not have done it, might have been railroaded, might be qualified, but there’s always a question, right?
So, like two folks who declined Biden’s pardons because it would interfere with their appeals process, Rebecca Lavrenz is declining because she doesn’t want her arrest to be considered to be a precedent.
Lavrenz told KOAA News5 that she is refusing the pardon because she wants to see her case through the appeals process, get her convictions overturned based on the First Amendment, and keep her case from ever setting a precedent.
“I had no intention of being where I am today, but when the public of the United States, we the people of America, see a 72-year-old grandmother, great grandmother, with an ankle monitor on, banned from the Internet, can’t get out of her house except on certain hours of the week, then that wakes them up, and they say, ‘If this could happen to her, then what would happen to me?’” she told the outlet.
She’s willing to take one for the team for the greater good. I wish her all the best in helping to restore the rule of law.
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