Have POTUS pardons before 2025 included wording that they are not . . . @ohwilleke Does someone have to "accept" (and hence admit guilt for) these preemptive pardons before they're prosecuted? It seems like the idea is to tell the DOJ not to bother prosecuting them If they're prosecuted they can plead guilty and then accept the pardon, so the whole investigation will have been a waste of time (except perhaps for the political effect of the investigation)
united states - Is there anything stopping the US President from . . . Regarding preemptive pardons, they might not be able to be issued before the crime is committed, but they can be issued before any criminal proceedings And in the case of Nixon, he was pardoned for any crimes he committed while he was president Ford said " grant a full, free, and absolute pardon unto Richard Nixon for all offenses against the United States which he, Richard Nixon, has
What exactly did the IAEA say Iran has violated? This report does not tell what exactly Iran has violated; and specifically, it's not clear that this is a violation of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) So, what exactly did the IAEA declare Iran to have violated?
Is 3000 ballistic missiles a credible deterrent? Otherwise, the so-called "deterrence potential" becomes cause for a preemptive war Guessing what the Israeli leadership really thinks is out of scope for this board But from their public statements, the Israeli government seems to believe that the Iranian government is implacably hostile to Israel, and unwilling to come to a detente
Is preemptive war illegal or just politically untenable? However, the 'preemptive war' is a tricky term, because it suggest self-defense which is not forbidden by international laws The problem is, how to define self-defense and where is the border between preemptive self-defense and the aggression
Can the US president legally kill at will? - Politics Stack Exchange The relevance of the Trump case is that it (a) applies to all official acts, not just foreign military policy, (b) is an actual ruling on the merits of a case, not a dismissal for lack of standing or judiciability of a specific case, and (c) establishes a lack of individual liability, instead of merely barring preemptive oversight
Can the permanent members of the UN Security Council also veto UN . . . And then there was UNGA 377A - "states that in any cases where the Security Council, because of a lack of unanimity among its five permanent members (P5), fails to act as required to maintain international peace and security, the General Assembly shall consider the matter immediately and may issue appropriate recommendations to UN members for collective measures, including the use of armed