#Pardon

George Conway

gtconway3d

It's important to remember that a presidential pardon reduces the ability of the recipient to invoke his Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination. If you have been pardoned for federal offenses,

Kevin Liptak

Kevinliptakcnn

George W. Bush wrote about the eleventh-hour pardon pressure in his memoir Decision Points: "One of the biggest surprises of my presidency was the flood of pardon requests at the

southpaw

nycsouthpaw

Staff of Lawfare stop saying plainly unconstitutional things that simply haven’t happened before are “an open question under the constitution” challenge 2020-2021.https://twitter.com/benjaminwittes/status/1334095649898434562 A “self

Teri Kanefield

Teri_Kanefield

The pardon power is absolute.But if the pardon is part of a bribe (the pardon in exchange for silence) there exists a separate crime not covered by the pardon.h/t @ProfBrianKalt

Laurence Tribe

tribelaw

1.Ken Gormley says his executive unpardoning idea “might sound strange, even extra-constitutional.” In fact, it wd be UNCONSTITUTIONAL even though I agree a self-pardon, if issued, should be judicially declared

Lemon Slayer

LemonSlayerUS

For any who are interested, the Trump pardons are now up at the DOJ link here:https://www.justice.gov/pardon/pardons-granted-president-donald-trump Here's the Roger Stone pardon:https://www.justice.gov/file/1349096/download Here's t

Kurt "Masks Save Lives" Eichenwald

kurteichenwald

Why Trump's pardon-a-thon is stupid. Under Burdick v. US, anyone who accepts a pardon - even these "not gonna tell you what for" pardons - is confessing to a federal

Aryi

aryi3025

Sen. Leahy: “Do you believe a president could lawfully issue a pardon in exchange for the recipient’s promise not to incriminate him?”AG Barr: “No. That would be a crime.”#PardonMeTrump@ProjectLincoln

Elizabeth de la Vega

Delavegalaw

It can not be seriously argued that a POTUS can legally pardon an offense, BY ACCIDENT. Yet, that's exactly the result if we uncritically accept the absurdity that a POTUS

Andrew Prokop

awprokop

Judge Emmet Sullivan has dismissed the case against Flynn, due to his pardon Sullivan points out Flynn's pardon is "extraordinarily broad," but says he only needs to consider the part

Laurence Tribe

tribelaw

1. Candidate DT violates federal criminal campaign finance laws by conspiring (as Individual 1) with his fixer, MC to get hush money through corporation A to a porn star, SD,

Tomi T Ahonen of the Smile Police

tomiahonen

The Pence Meeting?Let me read some tea leaves.. (Thread warning!)What do we know?Pelosi gave Pence (=Mitch) till end of Sunday to use 25A to remove Trump. Now Pelosi gave Mitch

Danny Cevallos

CevallosLaw

1] A possible Trump "self" and "family" pardon workaround to look out for: he could try to pardon any and all identified/unidentified suspects in connection with (just an example) "the

Harry Litman

harrylitman

Roughly speaking, tomorrow we will see some unexceptionable pardons, some abusive pardons, and some possibly illegal pardons. In the first category is persons who have gone through the established channels

Catherine Herridge

CBS_Herridge

#Flynn In 43 page opinion, Judge Sullivan calls POTUS full pardon “political decision not a legal one” CONTEXT: Sullivan dismisses @GenFlynn case as “moot,” more than 7 months after DOJ

Anshu Sharma🌶

anshublog

I am issuing #pardons today.Pardon #1: Ballmer, for attempted murder of Microsoft and conspiracy to kill open-source. Pardon #2: Steve Jobs, for daylight robbery - setting the App Store fee

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