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is it legal to offer presidential pardons on condition of the person doing something unrelated to the offence?
by 737min 7y ago
is it legal to offer presidential pardons on condition of the person doing something unrelated to the offence?
- abhorrence 7y agoThere’s very few constitutional limits on the power to pardon. I suspect abusive use of the power would fall under the scope of impeachment, but we’d be unlikely to ever see that play out. Pardons are also interesting because they have to be affirmatively accepted, and they have to be for an actual crime that was committed — so there is endless debate about whether accepting a pardon is an admission of guilt.
- jki275 7y agoYour last paragraph has absolutely no basis in US law at least.