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- Legal Precedent: The U.S. Supreme Court case Burdick v. United States (1915) is often cited in this context. In this case, George Burdick, a newspaper editor, refused a pardon because accepting it would imply an admission of guilt. The Court ruled that "acceptance of a pardon implies a confession of guilt." This suggests that, at least historically, there's an understanding that accepting a pardon can be seen as an acknowledgment of guilt by the recipient.
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Biden's preemptive pardons. lol. Does this not make it even more obvious that they're all extra filth?

"Biden pardoned former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley, Dr. Anthony Fauci, members and staff of the committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, and Capitol and D.C. Metropolitan police officers who testified before that committee. The panel’s members included Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., who was then a House member; former Reps. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., Elaine Luria, D-Va., and Stephanie Murphy, D-Fla.; and current Reps. Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., Jamie Raskin, D-Md., and Bennie Thompson, D-Miss.