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Put simply: Before anyone is pardoned for a crime or crimes, shouldn’t the crime(s) be disclosed to the American people?
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Posted on 12/11/2024 5:38:05 AM PST by MtnClimber

Put simply:

Before anyone is pardoned for a crime or crimes, shouldn’t the crime(s) be disclosed to the American people?

I understand that the power to pardon is enshrined in the Constitution, but where in the Constitution does it say that the crime that is pardoned shall remain undisclosed to the American people?

The requirement that the crimes be disclosed before they are pardoned should be made law. There is nothing in the Constitution of which I am aware that prevents this requirement for transparency from being made law.

Why would anyone oppose such a law?

Constitutional scholars please put forth your views on this issue.


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To: MtnClimber
The guy with pardon power is demented

Challenge the pardons in court. Declare Biden is legally incompetent. Then the Biden pardon signatures become worthless.

21 posted on 12/11/2024 7:45:43 AM PST by FreeReign
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To: MtnClimber
This pardoning for crimes not yet committed will not pass SCOTUS review.

Telling a lawyer that "X" can commit crimes without legal consequences hits them all right in the breadbasket. They'll never stand for it.

22 posted on 12/11/2024 10:27:54 AM PST by Paal Gulli
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To: Hattie

Yes you can.


23 posted on 12/11/2024 10:32:53 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (Climate Change is Real. Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall.)
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To: NorthMountain

None that I know of, Why?


24 posted on 12/11/2024 12:50:03 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (America-hating Democrat "core values" really suck. All Marxist fascists have the same ones.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

I should have specified that I wasn’t talking about JSixers. I thought everyone knew they weren’t guilty of any crimes. I was talking about the extreme far-left turd rollers requesting pardons.


25 posted on 12/11/2024 12:52:33 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (America-hating Democrat "core values" really suck. All Marxist fascists have the same ones.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Exactly ... they’ve been “convicted” of non-crimes, so how do you pardon them? Their records need to be expunged, and they need to be indemnified for their losses.

However that works ...


26 posted on 12/11/2024 12:53:14 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: farmguy

Is the Supreme Court up to it?


27 posted on 12/11/2024 1:14:53 PM PST by Wu (Excuse me while I kiss the sky......)
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