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There is a long history of such pardon priveleges. It isn't something that just got snuck into the Constitution by mistake. The premise is that the wise leader will use it wisely. It doesn't always turn out that way, but often it does...
Jack Turley, a Constitutional law professors (Georgetown U. I think) was on TV the other night and I believe he said that while the Constitution is vague on it that a pardon must mention the PERSON and the CRIME for which they are being pardoned. I'll admit that I wasn't paying as much attention as I should have been.
The thing is if a president pardoned someone with that much specificity, and the person accepted it, they might be opening themselves up for civil suits, as I'm pretty sure a pardon can't help in that regard.
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Wouldn't pardoning somebody before they were charged in itself be an admission of guilt to some extent?
It would to me
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