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minus-square@raspberriesareyummylink5•1 year agoNSA being an angry little child with a napkin aside, I believe there was a legal hurdle to Snowden being pardoned: You need to be tried & sentenced before a presidential pardon can be applied, as far as I understood.
minus-squareExatronlink17•1 year agoSurprisingly, that actually isn’t required. Nixon was pardoned without even being indicted.
minus-square@raspberriesareyummylink2•1 year agohmm - interesting. I thought this topic was debated when the orange turd was thinking about pardoning itself preemptively…
minus-squareExatronlink2•1 year agoThat’s a different issue since it’s not clear whether a president has the power to pardon themself.
minus-square@raspberriesareyummylink1•1 year agoyeah, but I thought both aspects were discussed at the time - I must be misremembering
NSA being an angry little child with a napkin aside, I believe there was a legal hurdle to Snowden being pardoned: You need to be tried & sentenced before a presidential pardon can be applied, as far as I understood.
Surprisingly, that actually isn’t required. Nixon was pardoned without even being indicted.
hmm - interesting. I thought this topic was debated when the orange turd was thinking about pardoning itself preemptively…
That’s a different issue since it’s not clear whether a president has the power to pardon themself.
yeah, but I thought both aspects were discussed at the time - I must be misremembering