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brettdale

(12,384 posts) Wed Dec 2, 2020, 12:20 AM Dec 2020

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Can you preemptive a pardon????

How would that work?

So they could never be charged with anything, even for a future crime?

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Can you preemptive a pardon???? (Original Post) brettdale Dec 2020 OP

depends on what the word pardon meant to the founders in 1776 nt msongs Dec 2020 #1

the act has to have occurred before the date of the pardon. unblock Dec 2020 #2

msongs

(67,443 posts)

1. depends on what the word pardon meant to the founders in 1776 nt

Reply to brettdale (Original post)

Wed Dec 2, 2020, 12:23 AM

Dec 2020

unblock

(52,328 posts)

2. the act has to have occurred before the date of the pardon.

Reply to brettdale (Original post)

Wed Dec 2, 2020, 12:36 AM

Dec 2020

but it could be so broad as to cover any federal crime up to the moment of the pardon.

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