That’s been the general understanding but may not be true. Up until 2016, America has relied on the government respecting the conventional way a lot of things are done. But there have been the occasional deviation.
It was controversial when Ford pardoned Nixon for not specifying what he was being pardoned for.
Last year Biden pardoned his son to protect him from possible persecution by a future government, also controversial.
Who knows, maybe Trump will shit out a tweet tomorrow declaring these idiots are completely innocent of any crime. Any challenge to that would need to be heard by the Supreme Court. Would the current Supreme Court intervene, I doubt it.
Your simple, one sentence question had given me way too much to think about.
Don’t you have to admit guilt to receive a pardon?
That’s been the general understanding but may not be true. Up until 2016, America has relied on the government respecting the conventional way a lot of things are done. But there have been the occasional deviation.
It was controversial when Ford pardoned Nixon for not specifying what he was being pardoned for.
Last year Biden pardoned his son to protect him from possible persecution by a future government, also controversial.
Who knows, maybe Trump will shit out a tweet tomorrow declaring these idiots are completely innocent of any crime. Any challenge to that would need to be heard by the Supreme Court. Would the current Supreme Court intervene, I doubt it.
Your simple, one sentence question had given me way too much to think about.