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A sweeping presidential power: on Lewis Libby and pardons.(THE WHITE HOUSE)
CLAIR GEORGE knows pardons. The former chief of the CIA's clandestine operations, George was convicted in early December 1992 of two counts of lying to Congress in connection with the Iran-contra affair. Two weeks later, on Christmas Eve, outgoing president George H. W. Bush pardoned George, along with former defense secretary Caspar Weinberger, former national security adviser Robert McFarlane, and three others.
Now, George is watching the case of Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, who in March was convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice in the CIA leak matter. "I think he should be pardoned," George says of ...
- The law: presidential misuse of the pardon power.(Essay)
- Magazine article from: Presidential Studies Quarterly Crouch, Jeffrey December 1, 2008 700+ words
...the presidential pardon power has been invoked...clemency. Presidents George H.W. Bush...Vesting the pardon power in the president...Virginia delegate George Mason warned that...president might use the pardon power to derail investigations...
- The pardon power and the American state constitutional tradition *.
- Magazine article from: Polity Dinan, John April 1, 2003 700+ words
...presidential exercise of the pardon power has sparked periodic...Richard Nixon, (3) George H.W. Bush's Christmas...various occasions, the pardon power is a plenary grant of...the exercise of the pardon power at the state level...
- Reviewing pardon power/death cases; (Editor's note: In Illinois executive...
- Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin January 13, 2003 700+ words
...states have the power of pardon under the state constitution and other laws. Last Friday (Jan. 10), Republican Governor George H. Ryan (Illinois) extended absolute pardon to four death row inmates, saying they were tortured into making false confessions...
- JUDGE TO WEIGH PARDON POWER.(News)
- Newspaper article from: The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY) November 11, 2005 700+ words
Byline: Mark R. Chellgren Associated Press FRANKFORT -- Franklin County Circuit Judge William Graham appeared troubled Thursday by the prospect of a governor using his power to pardon to close off a grand jury's own authority to examine evidence and indict wrongdoing. "You can imagine every kind of
- Pardon me? The Bush administration defends Clinton. (Citings).(former president...
- Magazine article from: Reason Doherty, Brian January 1, 2003 700+ words
...says. Though the Clinton administration did lose some executive privilege claims, they all involved criminal cases. "The pardon power is pretty close to the core of executive privilege," says Rosenzweig. "It is an unreviewable decision by the president...
- Executive clemency or bureaucratic discretion? Two models of the pardons...
- Magazine article from: Presidential Studies Quarterly Erler, H. Abbie September 1, 2007 700+ words
...president's use of the pardon power is not shared with either...government nor can the pardon power be restricted or limited...pardon of Richard Nixon, George H. W. Bush's pardons...Clinton's use of the pardon power during his final days...
- The deeper scandal of the Clinton pardons.(Opinion)
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor February 26, 2001 700+ words
...The president's pardon power appears unlimited...accountability to the pardon power, we should establish...justify the presidential pardon power, he multiplied the...Hamilton's standards. George L. Priest teaches law...
- Presidential pardoning power harks back to right of royalty; Presidential...
- Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) Black, Eric February 18, 2001 700+ words
...Constitution left the pardon power broad and virtually untrammeled...in office has used the pardon power. The record-holder...officials. President George Washington personally...nature of presidential pardon power. - Eugene Debs: The...
