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Opinion | You can be sure Trump will follow Biden’s pre-emptive pardons precedent

As bad as the prospect of Trump’s pursuing revenge prosecutions is, the idea of Biden’s pardoning the innocent is potentially worse.
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Glenn Kirschner
Glenn Kirschner, a former assistant U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., is an NBC News and MSNBC legal analyst.

Some interesting takeaways...............

This unprecedented move by Biden may feel good in the moment, perhaps providing some future protection for those he pardoned against newly inaugurated President Donald Trump’s incessant threats of retribution. But in the long run, Biden’s pardoning the innocent could spark a democracy-damaging cycle of pardons by Trump and presidents to come.

However, Biden’s pardons will provide only limited protection. Those pardoned can still be nefariously audited. They can still be criminally investigated, even if they can’t be prosecuted. They can be dragged before Congress and made to testify. In other words, they could still be put on the hook for legal fees, not to mention the stress, emotional turmoil and reputational harm to those who are vindictively pursued, while knowing they’ve done nothing wrong. (some opinion there about "done nothing wrong", but whatever)


Unpersuaded by such statements, Republican politicians are declaring that Biden’s pardons prove that the recipients committed crimes. Such claims may have some superficial (even if only specious) support in Burdick v. United States, a Supreme Court case from more than 100 years ago. In that case, the court observed that a pardon carries with it “an imputation of guilt and acceptance (of a pardon) a confession of (guilt).”
 
Mark Milley telling China he would call them if we were to attack them was a treasonous act.

Lloyd Austin going AWOL was also an act of treason.
Both made racial and political rants publicly to fit into the woke crowd.
No pardon I’m sorry. Both deserve the gallows.
 
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