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Conspiracy charges can't be Pardoned
Having trouble verifying this
Is this true?
Qutzupalotl
(14,317 posts)(unindicted or not), he cannot pardon his co-conspirators, is what Ive heard.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)Only if a case makes it to the Supreme Court would we see if the court would decide
the President can't pardon someone charged in a conspiracy with the President.
Nixon was listed as "an un-indicted co-conspirator". Trump hasn't been formally listed
or charged in a conspiracy.
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)Presidential pardoning power is defined only in that document. Nothing else applies. It's a purely constitutional thing.
So, I wouldn't say that conspiracy charges can't be subject to pardons. Nothing about that exists in the Constitution.
Jersey Devil
(9,874 posts)There is no Constitutional limit on the President's power to pardon.
kentuck
(111,104 posts)Common sense would tell us that a person under investigation cannot pardon someone else under investigation.