Posted on 01/19/2017 5:06:54 PM PST by nickcarraway
Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was arrested last January after almost six months on the run following his escape from a maximum-security prison in Mexico
The convicted Sinaloa cartel boss had been held most recently at a prison near Ciudad Juarez. He was recaptured a year ago after escaping from a second maximum-security prison through a tunnel dug to his cell.
The 2015 escape was highly embarrassing for the government of President Enrique Pena Nieto, and Mexican officials were seen as eager to hand the headache off to the United States afterward. Guzman's lawyers have fought extradition since his recapture.
Guzman, who is in his late 50s, faces the possibility of life in a U.S. prison under multiple indictments in six jurisdictions around the United States, including New York, San Diego, Chicago and Miami.
He’ll probably get his own prison with a pool and handmaidens.
Just because it wasn't challenged doesn't mean that it was legal.
The press and the Democrats hated Nixon with a passion it’s hard to fathom. I would state in response, if they thought there was any chance whatsoever to have prevailed, they would have challenged the pardon at some point when a Democrat held the office.
Having driven him from office and totally humiliated Nixon, I think it might have generated a backlash if they pursued him. I think the pardon was a way of closing the chapter and “moving on.”
Nixon was “punished” for Watergate. Hillary, on the other hand has so far escaped punishment for her crimes. If Obama pardons her, I would certainly support a challenge to the legality of the pardon.
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