[Magdalen] Pardons

James Handsfield jhandsfield at att.net
Sat Jul 22 22:15:48 UTC 2017


The president cannot pardon him/herself.

A note on this from last night’s Rachel Maddow show - Gerald Ford was disappointed that everyone missed an important aspect of his pardon of Nixon - that Nixon confessed to the cover up by accepting the pardon.  It was Ford that finally got Nixon to admit it.

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Jim Handsfield
jhandsfield at att.net

> On Jul 22, 2017, at 5:47 PM, Eleanor Braun <eleanor.braun at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> And bear in mind -- if Trump purports to pardon himself, that has no effect
> on impeachment, other than making it more likely.
> 



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