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Subject: Re: Why Biden's Last Second Pardons Were SHAMEFUL.
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2025 16:09:54 -0500
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On 1/21/2025 2:19 PM, Rhino wrote:
> On 2025-01-21 4:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
>> Dana Loesch reacts to Joe Biden's final act as President by issuing
>> preemptive pardons to Dr. Anthony Fauci, General Mark Milley and select
>> members of his family.
>>
>> https://youtu.be/1SUzugSl2zU?si=hTexzTIs3GIpS2Dq
>>
> 
> I would be very curious to see what would happen if someone contested a 
> preemptive pardon in the courts. Let's say someone wanted to have Fauci 
> charged with something he did during the period covered by the pardon. 
> His lawyers would obviously cite the pardon but what if the prosecutor 
> didn't think a preemptive pardon was a power held by the president and 
> proceeded with the trial. Presumably any guilty verdict would be 
> challenged on appeal but then the appeal could be challenged as well. I 
> can't help but wonder what the Supreme Court would rule about the 
> presidential pardon power if the case made it to them.
> 
> Or have preemptive pardons already been tested in court and found to be 
> a valid expression of a president's powers?
> 
> A preemptive pardon seems like a presumption of the guilt of the 
> recipient by the president which would seem to go against the entire 
> presumption of innocence at the heart of the legal system.

....except that it was stated to be expressly NOT such a presumption.