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“I Need Six to Eight Pardons”: Sidney Powell’s Secret Scheme to “Find” Trump’s Votes
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She knew there's no such thing as a secret pardon, right?
There actually isn't a requirement that pardons be announced until they get someone out of the consequences. Trump could have pardoned himself for any federal crime, and just left the document in a drawer somewhere to be used later.
The question of constitutionality has never been tested, so maybe it works and maybe it doesn't. As others have noted, it wouldn't work at all for state crimes. But as a concept, "secret" pardons are conceivably possible and potentially valid. We just never had a criminal so brazen in the White House that anyone thought of it before.
Trump could not have pardoned himself because pardoning is not a thing people can do to themselves. Don't normalize the idea that it is.
Imagine people saying "I pardon myself" after bumping into you on the street. That's the level of absurdity we're at.
None of that logic works.
Random people can't legally pardon anyone. That's why they can't pardon themselves.
The President can legally pardon people accused of federal crimes. It's only common sense that stops one from pardoning themselves, not the law.
I'm advocating for the meaning of words in the constitution meaning what they've always meant. There's no need or justification for inventing some new legal meaning for a word the authors of the Constitution didn't see fit to define.