Self-pardons are bad, but the unprecedented suggestion of "un-pardons" is worse.
Lord have mercy, so to speak.
This op-ed is also yet another example of the "pardon panic" genre that gets pardon law and Burdick embarrassingly wrong:
Pardons are not confessions of guilt.
Lord have mercy, so to speak.
This op-ed is also yet another example of the "pardon panic" genre that gets pardon law and Burdick embarrassingly wrong:
Pardons are not confessions of guilt.
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1339985547117379585
@CBHessick:
I am calling for a complete and total shutdown of pardon op-eds until breathless pundits take a deep breath, actually read Burdick, and figure out what is going on.
I am calling for a complete and total shutdown of pardon op-eds until breathless pundits take a deep breath, actually read Burdick, and figure out what is going on.
(I'm tagging Carissa because she has been so right on these questions. She did not write this op-ed, to be clear!)
E.g., today:
"NC Gov. Roy Cooper granted pardons to five men convicted of crimes they did not commit, including one freed this year after serving 44 years on a wrongful rape conviction."
These pardons are not confessions of guilt. They are the opposite!
cnn.com/2020/12/17/us/…
"NC Gov. Roy Cooper granted pardons to five men convicted of crimes they did not commit, including one freed this year after serving 44 years on a wrongful rape conviction."
These pardons are not confessions of guilt. They are the opposite!
cnn.com/2020/12/17/us/…
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