Episode - Explainer: Pre-emptive Presidential Pardons
Pre-emptive Presidential Pardons Can you be pardoned for a crime before you're ever charged? By Jacob Leibenluft With six months to go before President Bush leaves office, the White House is receiving a flurry of pardon applications. The New York Times reported that "several members of the conservative legal community" are pushing for the White House to grant pre-emptive pardons for officials involved in counterterrorism programs. Wait—can a president really pardon someone who hasn't even been charged with a crime? Yep. In 1866, the Supreme Court ruled in Ex parte Garland that the pardon powe
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