Thanks for posting. AI reminded me of the two instances that a preemptive pardon was used. First, Gerald Ford of Richard Nixon Second, Jiommy Carter of VietNam draft dodgers.
I still question if a preemptive pardon is within the power of POTUS under Article II, Section 2.
Article II, Section 2, Clause 1:
The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.
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Biden didn’t pardon himself or Jill so time to go after them both.
The Biden crime family totally trashed the “rule of law” in a thousand different ways.
Yeah. It gives Trump the excuse for not bringing Fauchi to justice for vast harm - nationally and internationally that his evasion of the prohibition of gain-of-function research wreaked.
Publish all the evidence. All of it.
No rules of discovery apply.
Just publish the truth about these Marxist theiving criminals.
Granting presidential pardons for unspecified crimes, for which there have been no investigations yet alone indictments, needs to be challenged.
We can’t have a government where a potentate instigates crimes and cover ups by his political henchmen knowing he can absolve them of any accountability. How can any system survive that kind of self-serving manipulation?
It sure seems like any reasonable reading of the text would require more words if future accusations were to be included.
In other words, Democrat/Communist Standard Operating Procedure.
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Seems that Biden invalidated most all Trumps executive orders when he took office e, can’t Trump invalidate bidens, including pardons, just as easily?
Nixon didn’t work for Ford.
Something to keep in mind. Those who are pardoned are now free to write a book without fear of prosecution. They can monetize the pardon.
Thought Experiment: Let’s say Trump pardons everyone who ever signed up to attend a rally. That must be hundreds of thousands of people that he can name, and issue a blanket pre-emptive pardon to.
Where would the country be then? It would be the end of the rule of law.
So we’re just talking a matter of degree. If hundreds of thousands is too much, how many is OK? 1000? 50? Five members of the Biden Family?
You can’t give one president unlimited pardon authority without another president being able to do the same.
This is more Biden lunacy that must be challenged in court, stopped, and invalidated.
“Illegitimately-pardoned” felon, I would argue.
A pardon is a legal action that requires a target, namely, a CONVICTION. In the absence of a conviction there is no possibility of a pardon. Nothing for which to be pardoned. A preemptive pardon defies legal common sense and as such is a thing that no one can assert the founders would have intended.
If it ever gets to SCOTUS, they WILL NOT look kindly on the matter of pre-emptive pardons because OBiden just deprived their professional contemporaries of A LOT of income.