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by auxbuss
3568 days ago
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It's law rather than semantics. The wikipedia article [0] on Nixon's pardon refers to this specifically: "After Ford left the White House in 1977, he privately justified his pardon of Nixon by carrying in his wallet a portion of the text of Burdick v. United States, a 1915 U.S. Supreme Court decision which stated that a pardon indicated a presumption of guilt, and that acceptance of a pardon was tantamount to a confession of that guilt." [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pardon_of_Richard_Nixon |
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