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NY lawmaker seeks to prevent Bush pardons of “cronies”
statesman.com ^ | 11/21//08 | Ken Herman

Posted on 11/22/2008 9:23:58 PM PST by paltz

Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-New York and chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties, has authored a resolution demanding that President Bush refrain from issuing “pre-emptive pardons of senior officials in his administration during the final 90 days of office.”

The resolution, Nadler says, is in response to Bush’s “widespread abuses of power and potentially criminal transgressions against our Constitution.”

The goal, he says, is to prevent “undeserved pardons of officials who may have been co-conspirators in the president’s unconstitutional policies, such as torture, illegal surveillance and curtailing of due process for defendants.”

“This resolution declares that we will not tolerate a last minute attempt by President Bush to shelter his cronies - cronies who may well be guilty of serious criminal offenses - from the full force of the law,” says Nadler


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 110th; bush; bushpardons; democrats; nadler; obama; obamatransitionfile; pardons; rats
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To: Dallas59

Fat slob.


41 posted on 11/22/2008 10:25:43 PM PST by Ben Reyes
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To: doc1019

“Thanks for the education … I shall research further. ;-)”

Include Pres. Nixon in your research. He was never impeached, though it appeared imminent, and was pardoned without any charges being filed (Pres. Ford could have waited to see if a pardon was necessary but chose not to).


42 posted on 11/22/2008 10:27:39 PM PST by Peter Horry (Mount Up Everybody and Ride to the Sound of the Guns .. Pat Buchanan)
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To: paltz
I see Nadler-The-Hutt is back to his old silly games.

POS.

43 posted on 11/22/2008 10:34:39 PM PST by DocH (Hussein Obama: Leader of an America-Hating Socialist /Black Nationalist Sleeper Cell)
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To: KJC1

My response: EAT SH!T.

I think he got that message a long time ago.

44 posted on 11/22/2008 10:37:13 PM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: paltz

Liberalism is good for you, like muffins.


45 posted on 11/22/2008 10:50:14 PM PST by wac3rd (Conservatives are not always Republicans...and vice-versa.)
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To: Senator Goldwater
The same “defendants” who blew up 3000 people in your congressional district, Jare?

As the old proverb goes:

No good deed goes unpunished

I'm sure whoever wrote it had Democrats as it's inspiration.

I will chuckled and pour another heaping glass of wine every time Obama and Company get into hot water and try ro blame anyone, I say ANYONE else.

Blaming Bush or the GOP will only get ya so far....
46 posted on 11/22/2008 10:52:52 PM PST by RedMonqey (Embracing my "Inner Redneck")
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To: paltz
Where was Jerrold Nadler when Clinton was issuing pardons?
47 posted on 11/22/2008 10:53:47 PM PST by DaltonNC
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To: paltz

Bump for later Sunday reading


48 posted on 11/22/2008 10:58:12 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: Gil4

I hate to go there, but I will: Those Border Agents lied. How hard is it to understand that? These guys are unworthy, but somehow they have followers. I am a police officer who doesn’t lie/screw around, I take my job seriously. Once you lie, don’t expect the posse to swarm protectively.


49 posted on 11/22/2008 10:59:14 PM PST by KJC1
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To: paltz
unconstitutional policies, such as torture,... and curtailing of due process for defendants.

Sort of like what happens to innocent babies in an abortion, which procedure Obama and the Democrats love so much.

50 posted on 11/22/2008 10:59:41 PM PST by verklaring (Pyrite is not gold))
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To: doc1019

“Can’t pardon until indicted and convicted. Therefore, can’t pardon himself”

Tell that to Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon


51 posted on 11/22/2008 11:07:28 PM PST by Figment ("A communist is someone who reads Marx.An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx" R Reagan)
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To: paltz
Rep. Hog Jowls doesn't know $h!t from good peach butter.
52 posted on 11/22/2008 11:13:21 PM PST by WildcatClan (AND THOSE DOESNT BRAIN JUST GO. ---- Cecile Noe)
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To: paltz

He can ask in any resolution he wants whatever but it has to get passed and even so, pardons belong to the President and they occur without the congressional seal of approval. Ask Clinton and everyone else before Clinton.


53 posted on 11/22/2008 11:16:46 PM PST by volslover
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To: paltz

I think the President has too much class to let loose the same type of felons Clinton let loose.

That said, Nadler can kiss my ass.


54 posted on 11/22/2008 11:21:15 PM PST by VeniVidiVici (All hail the Obamasiah! Kneel before Obamohammad!)
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To: paltz

Sheesh. That fat slob Nadler didn’t keel over from a heart attack yet?


55 posted on 11/22/2008 11:23:37 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: paltz
Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-New York and chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties, has authored a resolution demanding that President Bush refrain from issuing “pre-emptive pardons of senior officials in his administration during the final 90 days of office.”

Nadler needs remedial legislation instructions. Pardons? Are ABSOLUTE. No government branch can rescind them. The only person a President cannot pardon is himself. (And that can be worked around with a deal with your VP)

56 posted on 11/22/2008 11:26:23 PM PST by Centurion2000 (To protect and defend ... against all enemies, foreign and domestic .... by any means necessary.)
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To: Dallas59
Nom...nom...nom...


57 posted on 11/22/2008 11:28:25 PM PST by Centurion2000 (To protect and defend ... against all enemies, foreign and domestic .... by any means necessary.)
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To: Dallas59

Donald Trump once had this to say about Nadler:

“I really feel that whatever can inspire him to go out and lose that tremendous amount of weight should be done. To be honest with you, he’s a walking time bomb and if I can convince him to put himself, not in great shape, but in reasonable shape, I’m doing a great service to him and his family.”


58 posted on 11/22/2008 11:36:18 PM PST by purplelobster
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To: DesertRhino

...I hope Bush has the backbone to issue the pardons. The dems made it necessary with their prosecution rhetoric....

I’m afraid he doesn’t. Or at least, he just doesn’t see it that way. He was raised in such a decent family with a decent father, he just doesn’t understand what the opposition will to do win - ANYTHING.

He assumes that history will judge him kindly. It well may. But, history is a long way from today, and the years in between may be even less kind that the past 8 to President Bush and his administration.

I think he and many conservatives absolutely underestimate the legal problems that will be brought by the coming administration. It’s going to be ugly.


59 posted on 11/22/2008 11:43:47 PM PST by Big_Monkey
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To: paltz

Nadler and his ilk are more responsible for the incompetence that led to 9/11 than any other Americans. The fact that Nadler and fellow leftist douchebags have not been totally discredited forever in the past 7+ years shows the malicious disgrace of the MSM and the ineptitude of the Bush admin.

The best thing to do with Nadler is to drop him on one of those Al Qaeda safe houses in Waziristan. That would be a big deterrent for terrorists of the future.


60 posted on 11/22/2008 11:43:57 PM PST by Enchante (Thanks, Mediascum, you "elected" your candidate and now the country will pay....)
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