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To: cotton1706
Texas politics is weird. The Governor can't even pardon a criminal without permission of the parole board.

Governor can't do much but repel invasions, actually...

/johnny

18 posted on 05/19/2014 6:32:19 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: JRandomFreeper

That’s odd. I have no problem with checks to power, but the pardoning power is intended to check the judiciary. But as we saw with Clinton, it can be abused as well.


19 posted on 05/19/2014 6:37:36 PM PDT by cotton1706 (ThisRepublic.net)
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