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To: SoCal Pubbie

Ford’s pardon of Nixon was never challenged in court, and it was tacitly implied that if it was challenged, Ford would still be president for a few years and would just pardon Nixon for any convictions anyway, so the issue was left alone. In my opinion, a presidential blanket pardon isn’t ‘settled law’ at all, and the elephant in the room has just been ignored for forty years.


63 posted on 10/23/2016 1:14:07 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: SpaceBar

I agree with you. I would think that a blanket pardon in regards to all federal statutes applying to a certain action might be permissible. For example, and I don’t recall his exact verbiage, but it Ford pardoned Nixon for all crimes related to Watergate, then that might be legal. I can’t see a president being able to pardon someone for the rest of their lives for all federal crimes in the past, present, and future.


64 posted on 10/23/2016 1:21:33 PM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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