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Pardons Do Not Imply Guilt

Sisyphus
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The deluge is on the horizon. A blanket pardon of anyone named, or related to someone named, Biden seems imminent. And the marsupial J6 Committee. And the Faucis of the Great Fake Pandemic. Maybe Ray Epps? Will it include the unacknowledged granddaughter of the POTUS? And, of course, all of this would be completely unnecessary except for Orange Man Bad. This phenomenal moment is in no way the fault of the child sniffer-in-chief or his involvement in a grift with a maze of holding companies laundering alleged eight-figure "considerations" from foreign powers. No, this is entirely laid at the feet of the evil of the epoch, and his cruel victory dance. And we will be reminded, endlessly, forever, that pardons do not imply guilt.

What luck that we have a Biden to protect the American rule of law.

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  • Old Bathos@OldBathos

    Pardons kinda do imply that. See, Burdick v. United States, 236 U.S. 79 (1915):

    There are substantial differences between legislative immunity and a pardon; the latter carries an imputation of guilt and acceptance of a confession of it, while the former is non-committal and tantamount to silence of the witness.

    Wilson pardoned a fellow who was deliberately stonewalling a grand jury and who refused to accept the pardon so the court had to figure out if it still applied. Maybe the pardoned fellow has inside info about Wilson's newly infamous brother-in-law Hunter DeButts but we will never know.

    What shall we call those get the coming pre-emptive pardons? Unindicted Biden Co-Conspirators? Persons of Suspicion?

  • Judge Mental@JudgeMental
    ReplyingtoOld Bathos

    Old Bathos (View Comment):

    Pardons kinda do imply that. See, Burdick v. United States, 236 U.S. 79 (1915):

    There are substantial differences between legislative immunity and a pardon; the latter carries an imputation of guilt and acceptance of a confession of it, while the former is non-committal and tantamount to silence of the witness.

    Wilson pardoned a fellow who was deliberately stonewalling a grand jury and who refused to accept the pardon so the court had to figure out if it still applied. Maybe the pardoned fellow has inside info about Wilson’s newly infamous brother-in-law Hunter DeButts but we will never know.

    What shall we call those get the coming pre-emptive pardons? Unindicted Biden Co-Conspirators? Persons of Suspicion?

    POCC - Persons of Colorful Crimes.

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