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To: Red Badger

Are crimes of espionage and treason pardonable?


64 posted on 01/18/2023 12:06:29 PM PST by 353FMG (Secretly practicing my Putin swagger..)
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To: 353FMG

Under the Constitution, the president’s clemency power extends to all federal criminal offenses, except in cases of impeachment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_pardons_in_the_United_States

State crimes are not pardonable by the POTUS...............


67 posted on 01/18/2023 12:12:47 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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