• YoiksAndAway@lemmy.zip
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    24 days ago

    It’s my understanding that you don’t have to accept a pardon, and that accepting one is a tacit admission of guilt, which probably opens up some interesting legal arguments once Trump is out of office.

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      24 days ago

      Oh yeah, which I’ll just bet they pursue at the same breakneck pace that ensured the chief traitor got the only punishment befitting insurrection… The… presidency?

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      24 days ago

      It’s not actually an admission of guilt, that was just the defense used for someone who previously rejected a pardon that they were worried it would be viewed as such