if Manafort isn't pardoned, I would guess this is why (though who knows, really)https://twitter.com/MikeMadden/status/1032342426080501761 …
Is this meaningfully true? What prevents Trump from issuing a pardon for contempt charges rising from refusing to testify in the relevant matter?
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Nothing. But then Manafort would be called to testify again and again, and he'd need to be pardoned again and again. I'm guessing they'd all rather avoid that spectacle.
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There is precedent for pardoning patterns of behaviour rather than concrete crimes, e.g. the pardoning of the "draft dodgers". So to my non-lawyerly eyes it looks like the pardon could be made out to be to for all contempt arising out of non-answering in the investigation.
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not clear Trump can pardon civil (as opposed to criminal) contempt.
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