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Cyrano (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-28-06 05:13 PM Original message |
Should the president's right to issue pardons be limited? |
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Demeter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-28-06 05:14 PM Response to Original message |
1. Yes! President May NOT Pardon Anyone On His Payroll |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-28-06 05:17 PM Response to Original message |
2. Yep.. I have thought this for a long time. they should NEVER |
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Selatius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-28-06 05:17 PM Response to Original message |
3. Wouldn't this take a constitutional amendment to strip this power from the president? n/t |
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Cyrano (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-28-06 05:30 PM Response to Reply #3 |
9. Yes. |
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Richard Steele (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-28-06 06:23 PM Response to Reply #3 |
27. Yes it would. And I would welcome such an amendment. |
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sabbat hunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-28-06 06:33 PM Response to Reply #27 |
29. keep the pardon |
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Richard Steele (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-28-06 06:37 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. OK, you've got some fine points there. |
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Adenoid_Hynkel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-28-06 06:47 PM Response to Reply #30 |
32. maybe make it possible for congress to block a pardon |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-28-06 05:18 PM Response to Original message |
4. I believe he can't pardon anyone who hasn't even been charged yet |
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schmuls (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-28-06 05:21 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. Then God help us charge these heinous criminals - so he can attempt |
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flyingfysh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-28-06 05:31 PM Response to Reply #4 |
10. Ford pardoned Nixon for everything |
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Richard Steele (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-28-06 06:25 PM Response to Reply #10 |
28. Pardoned in ADVANCE, for crimes unknown. Ford is hellbound for that act alone. |
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Selatius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-28-06 05:35 PM Response to Reply #4 |
11. Woodrow Wilson also is responsible for the persecution of many anti-war activists during the war |
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Ignacio Upton (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-28-06 07:09 PM Response to Reply #11 |
33. If you read some of the stuff he said during the war |
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Cyrano (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-28-06 05:41 PM Response to Reply #4 |
16. How about a presidential pardon for Ted Bundy or John Wayne Gacey? |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-28-06 05:54 PM Response to Reply #16 |
19. Let me know when a president pardons either of those dead guys |
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Ian David (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-28-06 05:20 PM Response to Original message |
5. Maybe this is why Pelosi is insisting there will be no impeachment? |
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MrCoffee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-28-06 05:21 PM Response to Original message |
6. No. |
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n2doc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-28-06 05:22 PM Response to Original message |
8. Yes! absolutely. |
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bigmonkey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-28-06 05:35 PM Response to Original message |
12. You can only pardon a convicted criminal. |
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MonkeyFunk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-28-06 06:19 PM Response to Reply #12 |
25. That's just not true |
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ShaneGR (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-28-06 05:35 PM Response to Original message |
13. No.... but I propose a timeline limitation |
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HCE SuiGeneris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-28-06 05:36 PM Response to Original message |
14. Criminals have no right to pardon anyone! eom |
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H2O Man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-28-06 05:38 PM Response to Original message |
15. No. Yes. |
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RB TexLa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-28-06 05:42 PM Response to Original message |
17. No |
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smomfr (227 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-28-06 05:47 PM Response to Original message |
18. Absolutly take it away from this clown before he pardons Manson |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-28-06 06:06 PM Response to Reply #18 |
20. Ridiculous. Manson is poor. |
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William769 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-28-06 06:07 PM Response to Original message |
21. No. |
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conscious evolution (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-28-06 06:14 PM Response to Original message |
22. One bright spot |
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tammywammy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-28-06 06:17 PM Response to Original message |
23. No |
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WI_DEM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-28-06 06:18 PM Response to Original message |
24. No. |
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blm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-28-06 06:22 PM Response to Original message |
26. Crimes of any WH office should be off the list for pardons. |
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Adenoid_Hynkel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-28-06 06:45 PM Response to Original message |
31. yes four words: admiral poindexter, mark rich |
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Donald Ian Rankin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-28-06 07:54 PM Response to Original message |
34. Yes, I doubt that very much indeed. |
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