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overtotheright 7 points ago +7 / -0

Not a lawyer but I don’t think you’re right there, the last part anyway. A pardon isn’t an admission of guilt. It’s a way for the President to officially confirm that the charges against you held no water, as in ‘no crime was committed here by this person’.

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SickIcarus 3 points ago +3 / -0

Yeah I don’t know, I’m not a legal scholar lol.

There’s this, but 🤷‍♂️

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burdick_v._United_States