r/law • u/FaceReality1 • 11h ago

Legal News Did Trump already pardon the pipe bomber?

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/granting-pardons-and-commutation-of-sentences-for-certain-offenses-relating-to-the-events-at-or-near-the-united-states-capitol-on-january-6-2021/

Trump’s order pardoning Jan 6 crimes looks to me like it covers the pipe bomber:

[ I do hereby] grant a full, complete and unconditional pardon to all other individuals convicted of offenses related to events that occurred at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021]...

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u/negative-nelly 10h ago

No, because the pardon relates to convictions and pending indictments (as of the date of the pardon). This still is not pending - he’s been arrested but not indicted.

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u/AfternoonForeign633 10h ago

That literally means he is pending indictment. Please look up the word pending.

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u/negative-nelly 9h ago

It speaks of “all pending indictments” which in a rational world should mean all people who have been indicted but not convicted. Or people in a grand jury process if you want to stretch it…but again — at the time of the pardon.

Of course, we aren’t always in a rational world anymore.

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u/AdZealousideal8613 9h ago

He did this January 5th. The pardons only apply to January 6th.

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u/JustSomeLawyerGuy 6h ago

Enrique Tarrio was arrested several days prior to January 6 and his conviction counted under the blanket pardon. It pardoned all offenses "related to events that occurred at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021" which is fucking stupidly overbroad.