(Mary Altaffer/Associated Press) Some people have asked: Does accepting a presidential or gubernatorial pardon imply an admission of guilt? The answer turns out to be complicated. 1. In 1915 ...

It's totally incoherent," he said. "And the other parts of the tape… really is an admission of guilt. Like, if you just think about the Espionage Act, what is the prosecution need to show?

Brendan Cole is a Newsweek Senior News Reporter based in London, UK. His focus is Russia and Ukraine, in particular the war started by Moscow. He also covers other areas of geopolitics including ...

Being pardoned doesn’t equal a sweeping admission of guilt and there’s no formal mechanism for accepting a pardon, constitutional law experts told PolitiFact. Former President Joe Biden said ...

would their acceptance of the pardons constitute an admission of guilt?” — Alma Suzin Flesch, New York City In 1915’s Burdick v. United States, the Supreme Court said that a pardon ...

(Mary Altaffer/Associated Press) Some people have asked: Does accepting a presidential or gubernatorial pardon imply an admission of guilt? The answer turns out to be complicated. 1. In 1915 ...

History contains several examples of persons refusing to accept a pardon in order to avoid the admission of guilt that accompanies it, in circumstances more compelling than Arpaio’s. Confederate ...