The normal process is that there is a request made for a presidential pardon, a board considers it and passes it to the president if deemed warranted. Of course, there is no normal process in the Trump era.
Trump announced the pardon on Tuesday, the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment.
The Hill
I wonder which of his genius staff members came up with that one.
“It was a monumental victory for equality, for justice, and a monumental victory for America,” he said.
Anthony was convicted by an all-male jury in 1873 after illegally voting the previous November. Anthony, who died in 1906, was fined $100.
The Rochester, N.Y., museum was Anthony’s home for four decades and the site of her arrest.
And they had something to say about that pardon.
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