Is Bush able to issue "blanket" pardons on his way out?

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Phoebe Loosinhouse  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Sun Feb-24-08 08:58 PM
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Is Bush able to issue "blanket" pardons on his way out?
   
What's the law on this? Can he pardon people in his administration for crimes they may have committed but not been formally accused of (yet)?

IF this IS possible, wouldn't this be a license for any administration to commit crimes knowing that one would never be held accountable?

I think Presidential pardons should only be allowed for crimes one has been CONVICTED of committing.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2918518#2918523

Don't you DUmmies have enough to worry about with global warming global climate change killing us all and marshall [sic] law to worry about something that will not happen? 

HawkeyeX  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Sun Feb-24-08 08:59 PM
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1. He'll TRY to..
   
But the congress will override his pardon, reversing it as soon as he's done as Chimp-in-Chief. Promise.

LMAO you cant get congress to chimpeach what makes you think they will overturn his pardons? 

Besides they can't

msongs  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Sun Feb-24-08 09:01 PM
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3. pardons cannot be reversed -> details on pardons here ->
   
Edited on Sun Feb-24-08 09:02 PM by msongs
http://people.howstuffworks.com/presidential-pardon.htm

Msongs

gateley  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Sun Feb-24-08 09:11 PM
Response to Reply #10
11. Damn! For a moment there I had hope.
   
Well if Bush ignores little things like the CONSTITUTION, couldn't we ignore whatever it is that makes pardons sacrosanct?

Wouldn't that make you guys as bad as * then?

thunder rising  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Sun Feb-24-08 09:15 PM
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12. Nixon was impeached and resigned. Nobody sought to test the "may or may not"; he was gone.
   
It kept Nixon out of jail, but nobody was looking for him anyway.
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Phoebe Loosinhouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Sun Feb-24-08 09:17 PM
Response to Reply #12
14. "He was impeached"
   
Really? I think not.

Boy, even recent history is up for grabs.
   

 

[jinxmchue]

Oh, NOW they have a problem with even the prospect of a president issuing pardons to people who've never been "formally accused" of crimes.  Didn't seem to be a problem for them when Bubba Cigarboy did it.

[Ralph Wiggum]

Congress can override pardons?

[jinxmchue]

Congress can override pardons?

In DUmmieland, yes.  In the Real World run by the basic knowledge of the U.S. Constitution, no.

[dandi]

gateley  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Sun Feb-24-08 09:11 PM
Response to Reply #10
11. Damn! For a moment there I had hope.

Ahhhhh, yes. It makes your suffering all the sweeter.