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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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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So *whether or not* someone is guilty or innocent of a crime, the King can just call off the government's prosecution of that crime because he feels like it, because he's the sovereign and the laws are only an expression of his will in the first place
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That’s not quite right, actually—at least if I’ve not mistaken your meaning. In US v. Wilson, the Supreme Court held that a trial court may not take notice of a pardon when it is not brought before it by a party; although does not formally accept (or reject) a pardon, it is
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without operative force unless one actively presents it (I suppose that a prosecutor, recognizing that obtaining a conviction is pointless if the defendant can then present his “get out of jail free” card anyhow, might bring a pardon to the court’s notice himself, but surely
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