No further info in the article as it’s breaking news. NBC broke into the inauguration to announce it.
Biden pardoned his entire family and their spouses as Trump directly threatened all of them.
No further info in the article as it’s breaking news. NBC broke into the inauguration to announce it.
Biden pardoned his entire family and their spouses as Trump directly threatened all of them.
Accepting the pardon actually requires admitting to the crime. So yes, the pardon is valid because the person has to go “yes I did this thing, and accept that I’m being pardoned for it.” You can’t selectively accept only the latter half of the pardon. And that admission and subsequent pardon means the state can’t charge them in the future, because they already admitted to it and were pardoned for it despite that admission of guilt.
But to your earlier point, there’s not much stopping Trump from trying to go after them anyways; The SCOTUS certainly won’t get in his way.
There’s also some period between issuing the pardon and accepting it where a pardon can be rescinded. I would think Biden already had all these people accept their pardons in advance though…