SnausagesinaBlanketIs there a mechanism in the USA to undo presidential pardons years later if political corruption has been proven as motivation to give these pardons?
bitjunkieI’m pretty sure that to re-incarcerate someone after they were pardoned would require a new trial, which would violate the double jeopardy clause.
Unless that person has comitted more crimes they were not previously prosecuted for. Which is not entirely unlikely if they are emboldened by having avoided punishment thanks to the backing of a corrupt POTUS. I.E. multiple Jan 6’ers.
Recidivism doesn’t have anything to do with being re-incarcerated for the thing they were originally incarcerated for.
Right, they would be subject to new prosecution for new crimes because of their recidivism. The pardoned crimes are no longer relevant to whether they end up incarcerated again. My point is that we have already seen high rates of recidivism in those pardoned by Trump, and a reformed Attorney General’s office or states can prosecute crimes that haven’t been pardoned. This doesn’t provide justice for the corruption of bad pardons, but if the end result is incarceration just the same, then that might be close enough to justice.
I think we are in agreement, I guess I didn’t phrase my initial comment particularly well.