President Donald Trump has issued a “full and unconditional pardon” to Washington, DC, police lieutenant Andrew Zabavsky and officer Terence Sutton for their roles in the death of 20-year-old Karon Hylton-Brown, a case that drew protests on the heels of the murder of George Floyd.
But the meaning of “preemptive” is more like a “Just in case”, rather than, “immune from future offences”.
They were all pardoned from 2014 until now, but trump admin could theoretically invent a new case that allegedly happened on Jan 21 and make an investigstion out of it. (It probably wouldn’t go very far tho, I mean considering that even an indictment requires a majority of a grand jury to indict)
Pardons cannot apply to the future*
*Unless you start seeing John Roberts doing a nazi salute, then you should get ready, because you’re about to be in a camp
remind me 2 years
Quite the optimism on how long it will take when the guy who bought a new department was throwing nazi salutes during the inauguration.
didn’t Biden just preemptively pardon his family?
He did.
But the meaning of “preemptive” is more like a “Just in case”, rather than, “immune from future offences”.
They were all pardoned from 2014 until now, but trump admin could theoretically invent a new case that allegedly happened on Jan 21 and make an investigstion out of it. (It probably wouldn’t go very far tho, I mean considering that even an indictment requires a majority of a grand jury to indict)