Conservative groups influential with the Trump administration have pressed for the preemptive acts of clemency.

There's a world of difference between a pardon issues to prevent malicious prosecution for non-crimew and one issued to people you've been instructing to commit crimes

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According to Associate Justice Joseph McKenna, writing the majority opinion in the U.S. Supreme Court case Burdick v. United States, a pardon is "an imputation of guilt and acceptance of a confession of it."

According to US legal precedent a pardon carries with it the implication that you are guilty, and can therefore be refused to allow an innocent conviction. Skipping the trial also skips the presumption of innocence.

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