Do you have to use the power so you were still born?
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Do you have to use the power so you were still born?
This is true. No one has tried, and it hasn’t been adjudicated. However everyone treats pardons as needing to be backwards-looking.
but doesn’t protect him from anything he may go on to do
The only limitation on the pardon power is that it must be for things that have already happened. It is not possible to pardon someone for things they might do in the future.
I would not. People should not do things that are morally wrong, regardless of whether they will be punished for it or not.
I thought Bill Cosby died a year ago.
Well I still have to go to work tomorrow, so I guess make sure my alarm is set.