Maybe a stupid question, but: How broad are the presidential pardon powers?
Could he pre-emptively pardon anyone who will kill person X?
Could he blanket-pardon all cops convicted of a crime while on duty?
Could he pardon himself for all crimes past, present and future?
seems like preemptive ones and reflexive ones havent been tested but we are probably about to find out what happens when the prez, congress, and judiciary are all politically aligned and wanna do evil.
But the meaning of “preemptive” is more like a “Just in case”, rather than, “immune from future offences”.
They were all pardoned from 2014 until now, but trump admin could theoretically invent a new case that allegedly happened on Jan 21 and make an investigstion out of it. (It probably wouldn’t go very far tho, I mean considering that even an indictment requires a majority of a grand jury to indict)
Maybe a stupid question, but: How broad are the presidential pardon powers?
Could he pre-emptively pardon anyone who will kill person X?
Could he blanket-pardon all cops convicted of a crime while on duty?
Could he pardon himself for all crimes past, present and future?
Extremely broad, for federal crimes. None of your examples have been tested yet.
Expect them to be.
seems like preemptive ones and reflexive ones havent been tested but we are probably about to find out what happens when the prez, congress, and judiciary are all politically aligned and wanna do evil.
Pardons cannot apply to the future*
*Unless you start seeing John Roberts doing a nazi salute, then you should get ready, because you’re about to be in a camp
remind me 2 years
Quite the optimism on how long it will take when the guy who bought a new department was throwing nazi salutes during the inauguration.
didn’t Biden just preemptively pardon his family?
He did.
But the meaning of “preemptive” is more like a “Just in case”, rather than, “immune from future offences”.
They were all pardoned from 2014 until now, but trump admin could theoretically invent a new case that allegedly happened on Jan 21 and make an investigstion out of it. (It probably wouldn’t go very far tho, I mean considering that even an indictment requires a majority of a grand jury to indict)
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