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usonian

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Mon Dec 29, 2025, 11:36 PM 3 hrs ago

Will Stump's countless pardons boomerang?

https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/do-presidential-pardons-remove-the-fifth-amendment-rights-of-recipients

In December 2020, Aziz Huq from the University of Chicago wrote in a Washington Post opinion piece that “pardoned people are by definition no longer in legal jeopardy for federal offenses, so they can no longer claim any Fifth Amendment privilege in that realm,” with Huq citing the Brown decision from 1896. “If they refuse to speak, the legislature can flex its contempt power: At one extreme, this can involve the threat of jail time, but it can also mean daily fines calibrated to the asserted wealth of a reluctant witness.”


Will Pete be the last remaining one to take the fifth?



Related article at MSN.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/liquor-stash-photos-bolster-nbc-report-on-pete-hegseth-drinking-allegations/ar-AA1wf4de

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Will Stump's countless pardons boomerang? (Original Post) usonian 3 hrs ago OP
Many of his pardoned felons will re-offend pfitz59 2 hrs ago #1
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