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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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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Pardons are -- in my opinion -- kind of a messed up concept and fundamentally problematic, they're descended from the days of monarchy and their original philosophical justification is just the idea that the whole government is owned by the King the way someone owns a company
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