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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 13:54:02 PST
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- From: Jonathan Fisher <jfisher@NETXWEST.COM>
- Subject: Re: Presidential Pardon
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- > >From: Jonathan Fisher <jfisher@NETXWEST.COM>
- > >
- > >> Just a quick question for the New Year!
- > >>
- > >> If President Bush is investigated and convicted on the Iran-
- > >> Contra affair before Inauguration Day, can he pardon himself?
- > >>
- > >> just wondering...
- > >>
- > >> Bill
- > >>
- > >You bet. That's why nothing will happen until he leaves office!
- > >
- > >Jonathan
- >
- > No, that's definitely wrong. It is Triply wrong.
- >
- > First of all, before he is convicted he must be impeached. If he is
- > impeached he can't pardon anyone, let alone himself.
- But, if he pardoned himself _before_ he was impeached (which as we know from
- the Nixon administration is a long drawn out affair), then he could get
- away with it.
- As you stated later, people can be pardoned even before they had been
- convicted of anything. And I believe that I have heard that the constitution
- doesn't address this specifically. It just gives the pardon power to
- the president.
-
- > I like Brett's suggestion better. It is much trickier. I doubt
- > they'd get away with it, though.
- It would be interesting....
- >
- > Jamie
- >
- Jonathan
-