Jordan Rubin is the Deadline: Legal Blog writer. He was a prosecutor for the New York County District Attorney’s Office in Manhattan and is the author of “Bizarro,' a book about the secret war on synthetic drugs. Before he joined MSNBC, he was a legal reporter for Bloomberg Law.
“If President Biden were to grant pardons to Trump’s opponents who are likely to be targets of his new compliant Department of Justice, would their acceptance of the pardons constitute an admission of guilt?” — Alma Suzin Flesch, New York City Hi Alma, Not necessarily. In 1915’s Burdick v. United States, the Supreme Court said that a pardon “carries an imputation of guilt and acceptance of a confession of it.” At first glance, that language would seem to answer your question in the affirmative.
Subscribe to the Deadline: Legal Newsletter for expert analysis on the top legal stories of the week, including updates from the Supreme Court and developments in Donald Trump’s legal cases. With that said, it seems challenging to preliminarily pronounce innocence on a broad scale when it comes to potential pardons of Trump administration targets. Part of the problem with the president-elect’s and his allies’ retribution statements is that they haven’t been tethered to specific crimes.
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