re: Shouldn’t “preemptive’ pardons be unconstitutional?

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Yup every single time. His TDS is unreal

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A MAGA-type melting doesn't mean me pointing out the flaws in his comments are partisan.

Also, by almost default, it's always going to be a MAGA-type on here

Do you suffer from TDS when you mock the same melting by the same people when you call them "conservatives"?

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Am I overlooking any key distinctions between that and this?

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As I mentioned in my previous post, Nixon’s charges were “obvious”, whereas Hunter’s aren’t as clear. It’s no guarantee that the pardon would be struck down, but it’s at least a reasonable basis for a challenge.

Preempting charges, not crimes you miserable twat

Would it be possible to challenge the pardons based on Biden’s mental state? There’s plenty of evidence to challenge whether he knew what he was signing.

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Preempting charges, not crimes you miserable twat

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An irrelevant distinction I covered in my original post.

Reading is hard, I know.

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Would it be possible to challenge the pardons based on Biden’s mental state?

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He was deemed unfit to stand trial. He should also be unfit to dismiss a trial.

Ford was not a co-conspirator in Nixon’s crimes.

Biden and the entire Democrat party are co-conspirators with these people he just pardoned in their crimes. This is apples and oranges and I do not think for one second the constitution protects this type of behavior.

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If my recollection of high school history is accurate, we had a President named Ford who preemptively pardoned a President named Nixon. To my knowledge no legal scholar ever seriously considered it worth filing a legal challenge against it.

Am I overlooking any key distinctions between that and this?

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Nixon was under active investigation (his Impeachment hearing was still going on when he resigned and when Ford pardoned him).

Some of the pardons Joe approved of aren't for any specific crime nor investigation, but rather to stop any potential investigation from ever starting in the first place. LINK

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I believe in the rule of law, and I am optimistic that the strength of our legal institutions will ultimately prevail over politics. But these are exceptional circumstances, and I cannot in good conscience do nothing. Baseless and politically motivated investigations wreak havoc on the lives, safety, and financial security of targeted individuals and their families. Even when individuals have done nothing wrong—and in fact have done the right thing—and will ultimately be exonerated, the mere fact of being investigated or prosecuted can irreparably damage reputations and finances.

That is why I am exercising my authority under the Constitution to pardon General Mark A. Milley, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the Members of Congress and staff who served on the Select Committee, and the U.S. Capitol and D.C. Metropolitan police officers who testified before the Select Committee. The issuance of these pardons should not be mistaken as an acknowledgment that any individual engaged in any wrongdoing, nor should acceptance be misconstrued as an admission of guilt for any offense.

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That's a dangerous expanse of the pardon power. If this expanse is allowed, the use of it will likely increase over time. Imagine it becoming commonplace for an outgoing President to pardon all members of their staff for anything done while being on the staff, to the point where no staff member could ever be investigated for anything. That's pretty much where this is headed.

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But the (purported/alleged) crime has happened.

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But it's even more than that, Biden's pardon even reads that it wasn't issued because a crime was possibly committed (the actual pardon reads to the contrary, saying the pardon shouldn't be used to assume their guilt in any crime), but that it was issues to keep any investigation of any of these people (whether as named individuals or being within a named group) from ever happening in the first place.

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I haven't read them, but I'm assuming absolute

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That means any federal crime they may have committed even unrelated to, say, J6 for those committee members or COVID for Fauci? If Liz Cheney had committed some federal crime completely unrelated to her opposition actions vs Trump, she's pardoned?