HLMenckenFan@lemmy.worldM to Political Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoBe like Edward Snowdenlemmy.worldimagemessage-square125fedilinkarrow-up11.55Karrow-down194
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minus-squareraspberriesareyummy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·1 year agoNSA being an angry little child with a napkin aside, I believe there was a legal hurdle to Snowden being pardoned: You need to be tried & sentenced before a presidential pardon can be applied, as far as I understood.
minus-squareExatron@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up16·1 year agoSurprisingly, that actually isn’t required. Nixon was pardoned without even being indicted.
minus-squareraspberriesareyummy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·1 year agohmm - interesting. I thought this topic was debated when the orange turd was thinking about pardoning itself preemptively…
NSA being an angry little child with a napkin aside, I believe there was a legal hurdle to Snowden being pardoned: You need to be tried & sentenced before a presidential pardon can be applied, as far as I understood.
Surprisingly, that actually isn’t required. Nixon was pardoned without even being indicted.
hmm - interesting. I thought this topic was debated when the orange turd was thinking about pardoning itself preemptively…