Not even legal, I suspect they could be overturned as these are “preemptive”... In order to be pardoned they have to have been convicted, I think. I suspect these could be challenged and overturned.
Nixon got a preemptive pardon, end of story.
We've granted a President the power of pardons, never the ability to take a pardon away.
Agree. If our right as citizens to speak freely or bear arms can be limited, then so can the president’s pardon authority. Otherwise he may as well be King Joe.
Waiting for the legal scholars to weigh in on this.
Actually, in 1915 the Supreme Court decided that they are legal. And further, the granting of a pardon imputes guilt on the recipient, and the recipient must accept it for it to be valid. And even further, if the recipient accepts it, they do not have any 5th Amendment protection to refuse to testify.
See: https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/236/79/