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OK, this is speculative at this point, I have no website to link to yet, this is coming straight from attorney Tom Fitton I just saw interviewed on television and I will try to relate as best I can the gist of the discussion:
THERE MAY BE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR BEATING THESE PARDONS.
The issue of Nixon's blanket pardon came up and the remark was: Well, that pardon was never challenged, but there may be legal grounds to challenge these.
ITMT, the picture of General Milley has been taken down off the wall at the Pentagon.
Here is some reading relating to the story:
www.csmonitor.com
abcnews.go.com
Further cogent information and intelligent comment is invited.
THERE MAY BE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR BEATING THESE PARDONS.
The issue of Nixon's blanket pardon came up and the remark was: Well, that pardon was never challenged, but there may be legal grounds to challenge these.
- For one thing, once a pardon is issued, there is a lot of paperwork and procedures the government must undertake--- Biden issued many of these pardons SO LATE in his term that this process was never fully undertaken yet and those who would do it are no longer there.
- Trump apparently has grounds to refuse to accept pardons under certain conditions.
- In the case of Gen. Milley, he can be recalled to duty then court-martialed. It would then be up to HIM to present the pardon as HIS legal defense as a test of it.
- As to the J6 Committee, apparently the pardon lacks a lot of specificity in exactly WHO is being pardoned! In many cases it fails to NAME NAMES, as such, it can be dismissed on grounds of legal ambiguity. No pardon has ever been issued for "these guys."
- Blanket pardons which do not specify what they are being pardoned of or why in cases where the pardonee is neither charged with any crime nor has any conviction are largely unprecedented, have never been issued preemptively this way before and such pardons have never been challenged in court.
- Further, the sneaky way in which Biden waited until the final 24 hours or even just 20 minutes before leaving office to issue some of these pardons may add further legal jeopardy upon the merits of their holding up in court.
- The timing and the scope of these pardons – including the Hunter Biden pardon – worry many experts, and cast a shadow of guilt upon the recipients. Adam Schiff calls them unnecessary and if accepted, removes 5th Amendment protections from the recipients.
- One thing that concerns me is one of Trump's own EOs stating that the government is now barred from weaponizing justice against people; I'm not sure the wording of that EO or the reason behind it and wonder if it could get in his way if defendants try to argue that criminal cases brought against them is a form of weaponized "retribution."
ITMT, the picture of General Milley has been taken down off the wall at the Pentagon.
Here is some reading relating to the story:
Do Biden’s preemptive pardons offer a safety valve or set bad precedent?
Joe Biden’s eleventh-hour preemptive pardons for his family and Trump critics are raising further questions about the use of presidential pardons.
Mark Milley's portrait removed from Pentagon hall
Mark Milley's portrait as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was taken down from the Pentagon hallway where all of the paintings of the previous chairmen are located.
Further cogent information and intelligent comment is invited.
