Can The President Grant Preemptive Pardons To His Children? | NBC News NOW

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2. Presidential pardons do not apply in cases of impeachment. I think the case can be made that if a President is impeached, any pardons he issues should be considered null and void

3. I am going to slam you on this bias bs. Just calling out your bias!
   Franklin D. Roosevelt: 2,819 pardons
   Harry S. Truman: 1,913 pardons
   Dwight D. Eisenhower: 1,110 pardons
   Woodrow Wilson: 1,087 pardons
   Lyndon Johnson: 960 pardons
   Richard Nixon: 863 pardons
   Calvin Coolidge: 773 pardons
   Herbert Hoover: 672 pardons
   Theodore Roosevelt: 668 pardons
   Jimmy Carter: 534 pardons
   John F. Kennedy: 472 pardons
   Bill Clinton: 396 pardons
   Ronald Reagan: 393 pardons
   William H. Taft: 383 pardons
   Gerald Ford: 382 pardons
   Warren Harding: 386 pardons
   William McKinley: 291 pardons
   Barack Obama: 212 pardons
   George W. Bush: 189 pardons
   George H.W. Bush: 74 pardons
   Donald J. Trump: 10 pardons*

   Note President got the least number. Now what did you say again? You are such a hypocrite.

4. The whole concept of pardoning is stupid.

5. Hold on so pardoned for what?

6. Some people argue that it is lawful for a President to issue preemptive pardons to people accused of crimes but not yet prosecuted and convicted. Here is my POV. The Constitution uses the specific words "reprieve" and "offences" (AKA 'crimes'). When the general public and media refer to a 'crime' they are usually referring to a particular criminal deed of note. When the courts refer to a crime they are usually referencing a criminal act(s) as it relates to a person(s) alleged of committing that crime(s). All citizens are presumed innocent of any allegation of crime unless they are proven guilty by way of lawful prosecution and conviction in a court of law. This means that until a person is convicted of a crime, they are innocent and cannot ever be punished. A person would have to be near brain dead to say that there is no difference between an allegation of crime either before conviction when they are innocent and after prosecution when they are guilty. Due to this fact one can only refer to a convicted person as a criminal and not a person subject to an allegation of crime. So, in courts of law and all legal doctrines like the US Constitution where this is such an important distinguishing factor, when legal authorities use the term offense' (AKA 'crime') they would not and could not ever mean to refer to people subject to allegations of crime as well as people convicted of crimes. Please consider this, if everyone is presumed innocent unless they are proven guilty, why would the Constitution presume to empower the President to grant pardons to people who are already presumed innocent? Further, since people are presumed innocent and authorities are forbidden from imposing any form of punishment upon innocent people not convicted of a crime,why would the US Constitution presume to empower a President to pardon an innocent person and grant an innocent person 'reprieve' from punishments the authorities are already forbidden from imposing on innocent people. The pardon powers are for pardoning and granting reprieve to people convicted of crimes /offences. If any of the courts have ruled otherwise, they are clearly wrong in their misinterpretation.

7. If he does pardon his children it will just show what a conman he is. Moreover, it will substantiate what most of us who know he is a cheat, a lier, a bigot and above all incompetent president. He will go with no legacy, but only as a bad bad guy.

8. A presidential pardon now is as cheap as Donnie himself, A liar and a loser.

9. The Trump name will be a source of shame to all of his descendants.

10. So funny to read comments. All recycled news propaganda. The news is suggesting this! No one else!!

11. By doing so would be an admission of guilt. This is why he's fighting for the election. Four more years of immunity.

12. Can the divided and chaotic democracy survive in the face of a powerful, aggressive, expansive, unscrupulous authoritarian dictatorship like communist China ? Look at the corruption then intimidation by CCP unfolding right now in Australia, the answer is clear.

13. Whats the point of having laws if such pardons happen

14. Maybe the Constitution needs a change, the author's didn't knew Trump.

15. When 3000 people die a day for COVID and your president think of pardon to go his family……..you fill out the dots

16. Why doesn’t he just give out “get out of jail free” cards or sell them.
    That is the kind of precedence this kind of action starts.

17. He need an executive order to pardon himself and his family .

18. 1:36 my entire life changed because of, p a i d t o b e h o m e .c o m

19. The scarey thing is they can do whatever they want and get off scott free doesn't leave room for faith in the American justice system

20. Clown and your cronies justice is closing on you and your cronies get ready if you pardon yourself and your cronies means all of you are guilty for criminal case..remember justice matters..ok clown..$#

21. Tomorrow his children wouldn't have to beg your pardon.

22. at some point doesn't this become an abuse of power? Surely Trump can't just hand these things out like halloween candy.

23. https://youtu.be/J_ijFAv7b4U

24. 1:48 I quit my job thanks to, p a i d t o b e h o m e .c o m

25. Check out newsmax

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