[Georgia Girl 2]

You can’t pardon people for crimes they haven’t been charged with.

[jeffersondem]

“You can’t pardon people for crimes they haven’t been charged with.”

That is not a correct interpretation of the law. Sorry.

[Leaning Right]

> You can’t pardon people for crimes they haven’t been charged with. <

Ford pardoned Nixon for all federal crimes Nixon *might* have committed.

The presidential pardoning power is that great. The Founders made a mistake with there, in my opinion.

[Still Thinking]

Strangely (or not), you can.

[DownInFlames]

Precedent has been set with Nixon.

[DesertRhino]

Yes, you can indeed. There does not need to be a charge, an arrest, a trial, a conviction, none of it. You don’t even have to specify a crime. Just a person and a time period.

[Fury]

You can’t pardon people for crimes they haven’t been charged with.

For Federal crimes in the past you can. There is simply no limit of that type on the plenary authority of the President to issue pardons.

[ridesthemiles]

EXACTLY

[Ken Regis]

“ The power, which has historical roots in early English law,2 has been recognized by the Supreme Court as quite broad. In the 1886 case Ex parte Garland, the Court referred to the President’s authority to pardon as “unlimited”except in cases of impeachment, extending to “every offence known to the law” and able to be exercised “either before legal proceedings are taken, or during their pendency, or after conviction and judgment.”
SOURCE:
https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artII-S2-C1-3-1/ALDE_00013316/

I wish you had been right but no.