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40_Head
@TheReal40_Head
Y'all need to stop talking about Joe Biden's pardon of his meth head son untill you've read Biden's memo AND educated yourself on what a Presidential pardon can cover AND what it cannot.
@Americanlll
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@IQUQWEQ
and I did some very deep dives on this topic over the past few years and I spoke with an attorney's office that deals specifically with federal law, Constitutional law, and Presidential pardons - to get the final word.

Let me clear a few things up and put some of the rumors/false claims/lies to rest.

#1 - Presidential pardons can only cover violations of federal law. They cannot cover violations of any state, county, city or local laws. The President also cannot pardon individuals that violated foreign laws such as an American citizen being indicted by a foreign country.

#2. Pardons can only cover federal crimes that a person has been arrested or indicted for. There is no "general pardon" or "blanket pardon" that covers all crimes a person has ever committed. A person must've been charged with a crime to be pardoned from it AND the investigations surrounding it.

#3. Investigations alone do not count as charges so a person cannot be pardoned from investigations, UNLESS that person has already been charged with a crime associated with that investigation. In other words, police cannot continue to look for other ways to charge someone if the president has pardoned them of that crime and all it's details

#4. There is only one federal crime that the Constitution bars a president from pardoning. A president cannot pardon someone convicted of crimes during an impeachment process and/or conviction by the Senate.

#5. There is no law preventing the President from pardoning someone charged with or convicted of treason.

THE POTUS IS ALLOWED TO PARDON SOMEONE CHARGED WITH OR CONVICTED OF TREASON.

Although Alexander Hamilton and James Madison argued to prevent the POTUS from pardoning persons charged with treason by a federal court, it never became part of the law or the Constitution..

#6. The POTUS cannot pardon civil punishments ordered by a federal courrt however they can stop restitution requirements from a criminal court.

#7. When a person is pardoned by the POTUS, their criminal record will still show they were indicted/convicted of a federal crime and then pardoned. The pardoned person must request that a federal court expunge their record in order to have that pardoned crime removed from their criminal record.

8. A president can pardon a person of one crime and decide not to pardon them of other crimes. A pardon does not suddenly make a person untouchable by law enforcement, they can still be charged with other crimes for other non-related violations they have committed.

9. The Supreme Court reviews all pardons granted by the president and they have argued in favor of, and sometimes against, the president's pardons.

10. There are still some presidential rights to pardon that have never been exercised by a president, including pardoning themself.

NOW DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHY

THERE HAS NOT BEEN ANY

SIGNIFICANT ARRESTS? BIDEN

WOULD HAVE JUST PARDONED

THEM!

IF THE GUILTY PARTIES

HAVE NOT YET BEEN CHARGED,

THEN THEY CANNOT BE

PARDONED YET EITHER!

You can read more about the history of the presidential pardon, the rules surrounding it, and the limitations too it, here:

~T edit: Although 40Head is spot on, of course, you have to be an actual president to be able to pardon someone of anything. Let's not forget that.

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