https://www.politico.com/news/magazi...itution-117757
writer makes claim that Trump can't pardon anyone connected to his impeachment.
this includes Stone, Manafort, Papadoupolous and others.
thoughts on this?
. . . “cases of impeachment.” This phrase is often interpreted to mean that a president cannot use his pardon power to stop an impeachment case of someone else from proceeding in Congress. But the phrase should also be interpreted as preventing the worst abuse of the pardon power: an impeached president’s pardoning of cronies who have been convicted of crimes related to the president’s own wrongdoing.If anyone is going to test the limits of how much power he can demonstrate, it would be him. He doesn't care how it looks. As long as he can get away with it. Stack the court, abuse your power, then get the SCOTUS to say . . . "oh well. Lifetime tenure bitches!"
The Supreme Court has never ruled on the meaning of the impeachment exception to the pardon power because such a pardon of a co-conspirator by a president who has been impeached is unprecedented.
If anyone is going to test the limits of how much power he can demonstrate, it would be him. Originally Posted by eccieuser9500That's what Presidents do when Congress is busy fucking themselves!
Pardonshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...y_Bill_Clinton
Verla Jean Allen (1990 false statements to an agency of the United States)[6]
Nicholas M. Altiere (1983 importation of cocaine)
Bernice Ruth Altschul (1992 money laundering conspiracy)
Joe Anderson Jr. (1988 income tax evasion)
William Sterling Anderson (1987 defraudment of a financial institution, false statements to a financial institution, wire fraud)
Mansour Azizkhani (1984 false statements in bank loan applications)
Cleveland Victor Babin Jr. (1987 using the U.S. mail service to defraud)
Chris Harmon Bagley (1989 conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine)
Scott Lynn Bane (unlawful distribution of marijuana)
Thomas Cleveland Barber (issuing worthless checks)
Peggy Ann Bargon (violation of the Lacey Act, violation of the Bald Eagle Protection Act)
David Roscoe Blampied (possess with intent to distribute cocaine)
William Arthur Borders Jr. (conspiracy to corruptly solicit and accept money in return for influencing the official acts of a federal district court judge (Alcee L. Hastings), and to defraud the United States in connection with the performance of lawful government functions, corruptly influencing, obstructing, impeding and endeavoring to influence, obstruct and impede the due administration of justice, and aiding and abetting therein, and traveling interstate with intent to commit bribery)
Arthur David Borel (odometer rollback)[7]
Douglas Charles Borel (odometer rollback)[7]
George Thomas Brabham (making a false statement or report to a federally insured bank)
Almon Glenn Braswell (1983 mail fraud and perjury)
Leonard Browder (illegal dispensing of controlled substance and Medicaid fraud)
David Steven Brown (securities fraud and mail fraud)
Delores Caroylene Burleson, aka Delores Cox Burleson (possession of marijuana)
John H. Bustamante (wire fraud)
Mary Louise Campbell (unauthorized use and transfer of food stamps)
Eloida Candelaria (false information in registering to vote)
Dennis Sobrevinas Capili (filing false statements in alien registration)
Donna Denise Chambers (intent to distribute cocaine)
Douglas Eugene Chapman (bank fraud)
Ronald Keith Chapman (bank fraud)
Francisco Larois Chavez (aiding and abetting illegal entry of aliens)[7]
Henry Cisneros (former HUD Secretary)
Roger Clinton, Jr. (cocaine charges, half-brother of President Bill Clinton)[5]
Stuart Harris Cohn (illegal sale of commodity options)
David Marc Cooper (conspiracy to defraud the government)
Ernest Harley Cox Jr. (defraud of federally insured savings and loan)
John F. Cross Jr. (embezzlement)
Rickey Lee Cunningham (intent to distribute marijuana)
Richard Anthony De Labio (mail fraud)
John Deutch (former Director of Central Intelligence Agency)
Richard Douglas (false statements to a government agent)
Edward Downe, Jr. (wire fraud, false income tax returns and securities fraud)
Marvin Dean Dudley (false statements)
Larry Lee Duncan
Galen R. Elmore (convicted of cattle theft)
Robert Clinton Fain
Marcos Arcenio Fernandez
Alvarez Ferrouillet
Henry O. Flipper – guilty of "conduct unbecoming an officer" (1882)
William Dennis Fugazy
Lloyd Reid George
Louis Goldstein
Rubye Lee Gordon
Pincus Green
Robert Ivey Hamner
Samuel Price Handley
Woodie Randolph Handley
Jay Houston Harmon
Rick Hendrick
John Hemmingson
David S. Herdlinger
Debi Rae Huckleberry
Warren C. Hultgren Jr.
Donald Ray James
Stanley Pruet Jobe
Ruben H. Johnson
Linda Jones
Preston King (Civil rights activism)[8]
James Howard Lake
June Louise Lewis
Salim Bonnor Lewis
John Leighton Lodwick
Hildebrando Lopez
Jose Julio Luaces
James Timothy Maness
James Lowell Manning, (1982, aiding and assisting in the preparation of a false corporate income tax return)
John Robert Martin
Frank Ayala Martinez
Silvia Leticia Beltran Martinez
John Francis McCormick
Susan H. McDougal (Whitewater controversy)
Howard Mechanic
Brook K. Mitchell Sr.
Samuel Loring Morison
Charles Wilfred Morgan III
Richard Anthony Nazzaro
Charlene Ann Nosenko
Vernon Raymond Obermeier
Miguelina Ogalde
David C. Owen
Robert W. Palmer
Kelli Anne Perhosky
Richard H. Pezzopane
Orville Rex Phillips
Vinson Stewart Poling Jr.
James G. Powell
Norman Lyle Prouse – former Captain for Northwest Airlines, imprisoned for flying while intoxicated[7]
Willie H. H. Pruitt Jr.[9]
Danny Martin Pursley Sr.
Charles D. Ravenel
William Clyde Ray
Alfredo Luna Regalado
Ildefonso Reynes Ricafort
Marc Rich
Howard Winfield Riddle
Richard Wilson Riley Jr. (cocaine and marijuana charges, father was Clinton's Education Secretary)[5]
Samuel Lee Robbins
Joel Gonzales Rodriguez
Michael James Rogers
Anna Louise Ross
Dan Rostenkowski – former Democratic Congressman convicted in the Congressional Post Office scandal
Gerald Glen Rust
Jerri Ann Rust
Bettye June Rutherford
Gregory Lee Sands
Al Schwimmer
Albert A. Seretti Jr.
Patricia Campbell Hearst Shaw
Dennis Joseph Smith
Gerald Owen Smith
Stephen A. Smith
Jimmie Lee Speake
Charles Bernard Stewart
Marlena Francisca Stewart-Rollins
Fife Symington III – former Republican Arizona governor
Richard Lee Tannehill
Nicholas C. Tenaglia
Gary Allen Thomas
Larry Weldon Todd
Olga C. Trevino
Ignatious Vamvouklis
Patricia A. Van De Weerd
Christopher V. Wade
Bill Wayne Warmath
Jack Kenneth Watson
Donna Lynn Webb
Donald William Wells
Robert H. Wendt
Jack L. Williams
Kavin Arthur Williams
Robert Michael Williams
Jimmie Lee Wilson
Thelma Louise Wingate
Mitchell Couey Wood
Warren Stannard Wood
Dewey Worthey
Rick Allen Yale
Joseph A. Yasak
William Stanley Yingling
Phillip David Young
Keith Sanders
Darren Muci
John Scott (not a full pardon)
Amy Ralston Pofahl (drug money laundering, distribution and manufacturing Ecstasy)
this guy is full of shit. Originally Posted by The_Waco_KidAs I've posted before RECENTLY ....
If anyone is going to test the limits of how much power he can demonstrate, it would be him. He doesn't care how it looks. As long as he can get away with it. Stack the court, abuse your power, then get the SCOTUS to say . . . "oh well. Lifetime tenure bitches!"
Originally Posted by eccieuser9500
Waco ... you give these Loons way too much "air time"!
Like rabid dogs, they snap and snarl at thin air. And their nonsense is repeatedly debunked! Originally Posted by LexusLover
do you think i should tell them that the conservatives who postEvery time they "debate" it blows up in their FACES....
do you think that would blow up their minds? Originally Posted by The_Waco_Kid