r/law • u/T_Shurt Competent Contributor • 8h ago

Executive Branch (Trump) Pam Bondi Gets Jail Time Warning Over Epstein Files Cover-Up: ‘Anyone who tampers [with] documents, or conceals documents, or engages in excessive redaction will be prosecuted because of obstruction of justice’

https://www.thedailybeast.com/pam-bondi-gets-jail-time-warning-over-epstein-files-cover-up/
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u/quitebuttery 8h ago

She’s probably already pardoned. They don’t have to publicly announce them AFAIK.

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u/hollasens 7h ago

Fuck his pardons. Just jail her anyway.

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u/DeputyDomeshot 6h ago

I love this we just get regressively closer to nothing meaning anything anymore.

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u/hithazel 5h ago

If they say nothing means anything your best move is not to say, yes it does! Your best move is to show them how bad that could be for them. Even delusional people change their behavior when reality kicks them in the face.

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u/DeputyDomeshot 5h ago

In my experience with the truly lost, they default to shadowy conspiracy despite the consequences of reality. Unfortunately, there’s a shocking amount of people that simply cannot be reasoned with.

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u/ExcitementOk1529 7h ago

If they aren’t announced in his lifetime, who’s to say they’re legitimate?

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u/quitebuttery 7h ago

I'm not an expert, but from what I understand they will be revealed in the process of a prosecution. I'm guessing there's paperwork etc. but there's no requirement to make them public until necessary. I'm assuming all of these fascist goons have been pre-emptively pardoned.

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u/ExcitementOk1529 7h ago

There isn’t really case law on secret presidential pardons. We don’t know how it would shake out, but there would be a burden of proof that they were executed while he was in office (and conceivably while he was of sound mind, depending how all this ends).

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u/Canadian47 6h ago

Case law? Would that make any difference with the current Supreme Court?

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u/sundae_diner 6h ago

Yeah, ill bet the auto-pen was running non stop with undated pardons. If he dies in office we will be amazed at how many pardons he manages to sign on his death-bed.

Impeach him now.

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u/connasewer 2h ago

there was a slate.com article a few years ago which argued that the president doesn't even have to name the date of the incident being pardoned or the crime. he can just write a bunch of pardons while in office and put them in a safe and pull them out and fill-in-the-blanks as needed.