The point I was making is that she says he should be pardoned because he says he is innocent. To her that's proof enough and his conviction means nothing.
However in the law an acceptance of a pardon is an admittance of guilt. What she wants is to bypass the jury system and have the president overrule the verdict.
it’s an election with no Democrats, in one of the whitest states in the union, where rich candidates pay $35 for your votes. Or, as Republicans call it, their vision for the future.
Bush should be impeached, then he won't be pardoning anyone, and if it was done over the end of next year, there, hopefully, won't be another Rep president to pardon him, as Johnson did with Nixon.
It's about time this whole presidential pardon was either abolished, or each pardon needing a 65% majority in the senate.
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum
I admit there may be some case I am unaware of and you are talking about a different case, but........
I've never been keen on the way it's used and the openness to abuse it has, however I am not convinced that approval from congress makes it anything other than make it more political.It's about time this whole presidential pardon was either abolished, or each pardon needing a 65% majority in the senate.
Sure it could prevent political based pardons when the congressional majorities are a different party than the presidents but think what would have been happening if the repubs still held power. (checks and balances)
I think pardons are sometimes appropriate when people do wrong for the right reasons. What qualifies as the "right reasons" is debatable though.
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it’s an election with no Democrats, in one of the whitest states in the union, where rich candidates pay $35 for your votes. Or, as Republicans call it, their vision for the future.
Whenever I see stuff like the lady (she ain't alone in her thinking) in vid's link or watch how people clammor over things like Goji Juice, I lose faith in man to sustain themselves.
"News" network, eh?"It's true that Barack Obama is on the move. I don't know if it's true President Bush called Musharraf and said, 'Why can't we catch this guy?' "
things are quiet until hitler decides he'd like to invade russia
so, he does
the russians are like "OMG WTF D00DZ, STOP TKING"
and the germans are still like "omg ph34r n00bz"
the russians fall back, all the way to moscow
and then they all begin h4xing, which brings on the russian winter
the germans are like "wtf, h4x"
-- WW2 for the l33t
it’s an election with no Democrats, in one of the whitest states in the union, where rich candidates pay $35 for your votes. Or, as Republicans call it, their vision for the future.
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