Once upon a time (let’s say prior to 2016), it was generally accepted precedent that accepting a pardon was an admission of guilt.
So I believe the idea is that you’ve already forfeited your fifth amendment right by admitting guilt.
I could be wrong.
It also doesn’t matter anymore because after one of Trump’s early pardons (honestly forget which, there are so many awful ones. Maybe Mike Flynn?), they were kind of just like “yeah no it doesn’t equal an admission of guilt, that was never really precedent”. Which apparently was true. It turns out our entire country ran on gentlemen’s agreements for nearly 200 years but that’s a separate discussion.
Once upon a time (let’s say prior to 2016), it was generally accepted precedent that accepting a pardon was an admission of guilt.
So I believe the idea is that you’ve already forfeited your fifth amendment right by admitting guilt.
I could be wrong.
It also doesn’t matter anymore because after one of Trump’s early pardons (honestly forget which, there are so many awful ones. Maybe Mike Flynn?), they were kind of just like “yeah no it doesn’t equal an admission of guilt, that was never really precedent”. Which apparently was true. It turns out our entire country ran on gentlemen’s agreements for nearly 200 years but that’s a separate discussion.
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/236/79/