[Magdalen] Pardons

[Eleanor Braun]

Agreeing with Jim, here is an editorial from the Washington Post, which
sums up the argument:   Four days before Richard Nixon resigned, his own
Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel opined no, citing "the
fundamental rule that no one may be a judge in his own case."

http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/5539377-155/washington-post-op-ed-no-trump-cant

And the NY Times found a memo from Kenneth Starr's time investigating Bill
Clinton that says a sitting President can be indicted.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/22/us/politics/can-president-be-indicted-kenneth-starr-memo.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

Eleanor


On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 6:15 PM, James Handsfield <jhandsfield at att.net>
wrote:

> 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.
>
> -------------------------------------
> Education is its own reward, both for the individual and for society.
>
> 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.
> >
>
>