[dhs12345]

I thought she had to be tried and found guilty first?

[justlurking]

I thought she had to be tried and found guilty first?

What is it with this issue? I can't believe so many FReepers are so ignorant of history.

Ford pardoned Nixon. Nixon was never impeached, he was never indicted.

It was challenged, and a court upheld the pardon as a proper exercise of Presidential power.

[Go Gordon]

I thought she had to be tried and found guilty first?

Ford pardoned Nixon without tricky Dick being convicted.