She will not pardon Adams, she politcally largely agrees with him, other than being embaressed about his flagrant corruption, they are both centrist to rightwing Democrats. This article is making it seem like she’s some kind of dyed in the wool progressive who really wants to get rid of someone like him which she is absolutely not.

IDK, people can downvote what they want. I unchecked the show upvotes and show downvotes options on the first day I made an account not gonna have a conditioned response to a number every time I post something or read a post, would highly recommend doing it personally.

If the downvoting seems suspicious like somebody might have used bots to mass downvote it, you can always message the instance mods as that would violate the instance rules of pretty much any instance.