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Re:The account of realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours by klipt on Thursday January 07, 2021 @01:06AM (#25667772)
That's a specific crime though. If Trump says "I pardon all Parler users for all crimes", can Parler start selling its accounts as a "get out of federal crimes free" card?
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Re:The account of realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours by Larrikin on Thursday January 07, 2021 @01:18AM (#25667852)
Pardons can not apply to future crimes, only crimes already committed and only to those specified at the time of pardon. Someone joining after would need to be pardoned again
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Re:The account of realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours by arp242 on Thursday January 07, 2021 @03:41AM (#25668732)
Also, the President can only pardon federal crimes. States can still prosecute.
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Re:The account of realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours by UncleSlacky on Thursday January 07, 2021 @08:09AM (#25670560)
Not so, Ford pardoned Nixon for any (i.e. unspecified) crimes he might be accused of doing while President.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pardon_of_Richard_Nixon

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Re:The account of realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours by Larrikin on Thursday January 07, 2021 @10:43AM (#25672255)
The Nixon pardon was issued after he left office and was for any crimes he committed while in office. Specifically in the past.
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Re:The account of realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours by dredmorbius on Thursday January 07, 2021 @01:29AM (#25667916)
Good point, and a specific past offence, rather than any possible future offence committed by some rather nebulously-identified class of people.

But the Carter case does address the circumstance of pardoning a large (and arguably unknowably large) class.

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