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Preemptive pardon: How Biden's possible plans have precedent - Washington Examiner

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History has shown that there is some precedent for preemptive pardons.

President George Washington issued the first presidential pardon in 1795 to rebels involved in the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania .

President Andrew Johnson granted a “full pardon and amnesty” to all former Confederates on Christmas Day in 1868 .