He decided to bet everything on this instead of taking the obvious escape route of resigning during the lame duck period and having President Pence give him a general pardon (Which is... one of those loopholes that we should've closed by now honestly)https://twitter.com/BrianWithCheese/status/1326384373936091136 …
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This is important, because many people pursue pardons after they've already served their sentence, as a way of "clearing their name" -- collecting evidence they were innocent and asking to be pardoned on that basis It's the same reason many posthumous pardons are issued
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But while a lot of people seem to accept the symbolic meaning of those pardons, other people have symbolically *rejected* pardons, on the view that being pardoned implies guilt (This has no legal meaning, once you're pardoned you can't just demand they have the trial anyway)
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Supreme Court disagrees for the last century. Burdick v United States, 1915. (Also, the DoJ refuses to admit they ever screw up, so their guidelines cannot admit that someone could have been falsely convicted in federal court, therefore, thou shalt not maintain innocence...
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Hmm, I actually didn't know about this This complicates the thing I vaguely heard about a while back about someone saying they rejected a pardon because they weren't guilty
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Don't you lose the ability to plead the Fifth on matters relating to crimes you've been pardoned for? So a hypothetical pardoned Donald could be compelled to testify against Jared or Don Jr on campaign-finance shenanigans.
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Yeah kind of, although you also lose that protection once you've already been convicted or sentenced for the crime anyway
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