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Atticus

(15,124 posts) Sun Jan 24, 2021, 03:56 PM Jan 2021

Is there not some sort of registry or recording required for legitimate presidential pardons? nt

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Is there not some sort of registry or recording required for legitimate presidential pardons? nt (Original Post) Atticus Jan 2021 OP

Apparently not. Dark n Stormy Knight Jan 2021 #1

There is a pardon office. The Velveteen Ocelot Jan 2021 #2

Dark n Stormy Knight

(9,760 posts)

1. Apparently not.

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Sun Jan 24, 2021, 04:00 PM

Jan 2021

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=14961899

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,724 posts)

2. There is a pardon office.

Reply to Atticus (Original post)

Sun Jan 24, 2021, 04:00 PM

Jan 2021

https://www.justice.gov/pardon However, there is no specified procedure in the Constitution that requires these processes to be used. However, if Trump pulled an ostensible pardon of himself out of his ass upon being indicted in a federal court, he'd have to be able to prove he granted it to himself while he was still president.

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