[cdrnsf]

The agencies in question are unlikely to face any accountability. The agencies that would typically investigate something like this are no longer independent and, instead, are headed by feckless Trump loyalists. It doesn't matter whether it's legitimate, it matters whether it serves their ends. If they cared about process or the law they wouldn't have been labeling the victim a domestic terrorist within minutes of ICE agents murdering him.

[OutOfHere]

A future administration absolutely can and should prosecute every single ICE employee.

[cdrnsf]

Dissolve it and DHS. Investigate every single ERO agent and prosecute those that meet the bar. Bar all of them from future public service. Prosecute agency heads.

[cosmicgadget]

They're all getting pardoned.

[direwolf20]

Federal pardons only work for federal charges, which murder isn't.

A future administration cold, but won't, choose to ignore the law about parsons just like this one is ignoring the law about murder and torture.

[cosmicgadget]

I believe they will try to use removal to get it into federal courts.

[AnimalMuppet]

Does removal let a federal pardon apply to a state crime, even if it's tried in federal court?

[cosmicgadget]

Good question. I suppose Trump doesn't much care, he already attempted to pardon that lady who gave balloting material to Mike Pillow. He'll just go issue the pardons and let the courts sort it out.

Or he could have the DOJ charge all of ICE, get the cases removed to federal court, then do an Eric Adams job on them. That'd be a sight to behold.

[OutOfHere]

Are pardons issued by a felon actually valid? It is for a future court to decide in a subsequent administration.

[cosmicgadget]

Unfortunately as long as that felon was elected president, yes.

[xenospn]

The odds of that happening are zero.

[seanmcdirmid]

Yes, but they might not stop the states from prosecuting them.