How many sitting senators will be pardoned?

[bluestarone]

Or sitting House members?

[machoneman]

1. Nunes, Graham, Jordan, Mo Brooks and more!

[bluestarone]

3. Yea i'm thinking a few.

Or maybe a BUNCH! (House members)

[Mike 03]

2. Senators? Graham will certainly need one.

I suspect Ron Johnson as well.

[rainin]

4. If he pardons them, I can't wait to see them in court pleading guilty

so they can receive their pardons

[DFW]

5. Maybe some, but maybe none

At the end of the day, none of them could pervert the election enough to reverse the result, so Trump might consider them failures, unworthy of his great magnanimous pardoning moods.

[dlk]

6. If Trump understands he can't pardon himself

Without greatly increasing his personal legal jeopardy, he may not pardon anyone else. After all, it’s always all about him.

[NotASurfer]

7. A Senator accepting a pardon is at risk of expulsion

One of the few things that will get a Senator (or Representative for that matter) to the 2/3 vote for expulsion from the chamber is being guilty of a felony or two.

Suppose Cruz gets a pardon for coordinating an armed insurrection. Accepting the pardon accepts that he actually did coordinate an armed insurrection. Ignoring the 14th Amendment implications, that's an admission of a serious felony with responsibility for 6 deaths. Hard to see the Senate, partisan as it is, doing anything other than asking for a resignation and expelling him if he remains defiant.