President Joe Biden is expected to pardon US veterans who were convicted by the military over a 60-year period under a military law that banned gay sex, three US officials told CNN.
In the legal sense, a pardon is not an admission of guilt (see #4 ), but socially it bears the resemblance of an admission by someone who has not yet been charged or convicted. Given that these folks were already found legally guilty of a “crime” that is no longer a crime, I don’t see how accepting a pardon is an admission of anything other than they had been wronged.
But I’m just some straight cis white dude in the internet and my feelings are not the ones that matter in this matter.
What they ought to do is expunge the convictions and offer some form of recompense for the unjust treatment, but reparations aren’t something our government wants to talk about.
In the legal sense, a pardon is not an admission of guilt (see #4 ), but socially it bears the resemblance of an admission by someone who has not yet been charged or convicted. Given that these folks were already found legally guilty of a “crime” that is no longer a crime, I don’t see how accepting a pardon is an admission of anything other than they had been wronged.
But I’m just some straight cis white dude in the internet and my feelings are not the ones that matter in this matter.
What they ought to do is expunge the convictions and offer some form of recompense for the unjust treatment, but reparations aren’t something our government wants to talk about.