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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
Again, it happened. Ford gave Nixon a pre-emptive pardon for "all offenses against the United States which he, Richard Nixon, has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 20, 1969 through August 9, 1974."
This is where it gets fun. Many people, including Ford when he granted it, believe that accepting a pardon is an admission of guilt going at least as far back as 1915 in Burdick vs United States of America:
Now you'll have extremely smart legal scholars argue all sides, that you can or can not pre-emptively pardon someone, that accepting a pardon is an admission of guilt or not, etc. Anyone giving definitive answers is 'wrong'; it would obviously end up in front of the SCOTUS and I'd love to see the bookie odds on that.
But wouldn't it be great if the Trump clan accepted a pardon, legally admitting their guilt, only to have the Supreme Court reject the pardon after the fact. Too bad about the balance right now.
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No better still they can have their pardon but the price is a full and frank admission of everything, a detailed account of the grift from the begining,, thousands of pages long, that donny boy has to read out in court