Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 month agoIf you were president and knew you were going to pardon your kids on the way out would u tell them to do all they want and I'll pardon you? Why or why not?message-squaremessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up18arrow-down121
arrow-up1-13arrow-down1message-squareIf you were president and knew you were going to pardon your kids on the way out would u tell them to do all they want and I'll pardon you? Why or why not?Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 month agomessage-square9fedilink
minus-squarestinerman@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoThis is true. No one has tried, and it hasn’t been adjudicated. However everyone treats pardons as needing to be backwards-looking.
This is true. No one has tried, and it hasn’t been adjudicated. However everyone treats pardons as needing to be backwards-looking.