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From: Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com>
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Subject: Re: Why Biden's Last Second Pardons Were SHAMEFUL.
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2025 20:57:28 -0500
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On 2025-01-21 4:09 PM, moviePig wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
It makes no sense to pardon an innocent person!

-- 
Rhino