PARDONGATE:
@realDonaldTrump
should ignore the preemptive, blanket pardons just issued by whoever is running the Biden WH. Specifically, President Trump should immediately court-martial Milley and proceed as appropriate in criminally investigating Fauci and any one else on the Biden's list. The blanket pardons issued by Biden are invalid and constitutional nullities and should be considered to have no legal force or effect.
So: these rely on the general assumption about Nixon insofar as he never got charged -- and so the blanket was never put to a test.
There's one way to find out if a blanket pardon for an unspecified, not yet charged crime is valid.
As with so many other matters, you only want to put something important like this to the test when you're sure of the result. We don't want to accidentally lock into place a mechanism where evil can do whatever it wants to us and then pardon itself, laughing over the wreckage with impunity.
This post - https://x.com/TomFitton/status/1882266254943334529
Tom's shared post -
PARDONGATE: @realDonaldTrump should ignore the preemptive, blanket pardons just issued by whoever is running the Biden WH. Specifically, President Trump should immediately court-martial Milley and proceed as appropriate in criminally investigating Fauci and any one else on the Biden's list. The blanket pardons issued by Biden are invalid and constitutional nullities and should be considered to have no legal force or effect.
https://x.com/TomFitton/status/1881334193256366162
So: these rely on the general assumption about Nixon insofar as he never got charged -- and so the blanket was never put to a test.
There's one way to find out if a blanket pardon for an unspecified, not yet charged crime is valid.
As with so many other matters, you only want to put something important like this to the test when you're sure of the result. We don't want to accidentally lock into place a mechanism where evil can do whatever it wants to us and then pardon itself, laughing over the wreckage with impunity.
This is the real answer