In Reply to: Trump's pardons can only go so far... posted by Gainsborough on November 02, 2026 at 18:42:24
J Michael Luttig has said before he thinks it's entirely possible a pardon can be undone if it's essentially proven the intent of the pardon was to get the receiver to break the law. If Trump says you go break that law don't worry I'll pardon you Luttig thinks there are clear legal options to try and overturn it.
But I sort of lost a lot of belief in Luttig when the whole keeping Trump off the ballot because of Jan 6 went by the wayside so easily. What makes sense legally, what he did was the exact intention of the amendment, was just too easy to be blocked by a biased court.
I can't imagine SCOTUS will allow a next POTUS to take a pardon off Elon for example because the intent of the pardon was to enable Elon to feel comfortable breaking the law