Off hand, I don't think so. Without a conviction there is nothing to pardon.
[link|http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/pardons3.htm|Some info here].
Fitzgerald to indict Rove?
- (JayMehaffey)
- (18)
- April 21, 2006, 01:27:02 PM EDT
Couldn't happen to a nicer Turd Blossom
-NT
- (Silverlock)
- April 21, 2006, 02:00:08 PM EDT
Timing is everything.
- (a6l6e6x)
- (16)
- April 21, 2006, 04:57:39 PM EDT
Is it?
- (hnick)
- (15)
- April 21, 2006, 05:10:35 PM EDT
Can you pardon before an indictment?
- (drewk)
- (13)
- April 21, 2006, 05:26:54 PM EDT
Yup. Remember Ford pardoning Nixon.
- (Another Scott)
- (12)
- April 21, 2006, 05:43:12 PM EDT
And then, as we saw with OJ and others . . .
- (Andrew Grygus)
- April 21, 2006, 05:54:52 PM EDT
Well, the impeachment trial hadn't started, so one
- (a6l6e6x)
- (9)
- April 21, 2006, 09:24:49 PM EDT
Impeachment cannot be pardoned
- (ben_tilly)
- (8)
- April 21, 2006, 09:36:26 PM EDT
That does make sense.
-NT
- (a6l6e6x)
- April 22, 2006, 10:21:07 AM EDT
Nit: Impeachment isn't a verdict, it's a procedure
- (drewk)
- (6)
- April 22, 2006, 10:31:56 PM EDT
Impeachment removes a President from office...
- (ChrisR)
- (5)
- April 22, 2006, 11:05:29 PM EDT
Not quite
- (dbishop)
- April 22, 2006, 11:30:58 PM EDT
Not quite right.
- (Another Scott)
- (3)
- April 23, 2006, 12:03:11 AM EDT
nevermind
-NT
- (dbishop)
- April 22, 2006, 11:45:49 PM EDT
Yeah, Senate Republicans decided that . . .
- (Andrew Grygus)
- (1)
- April 23, 2006, 12:30:43 AM EDT
If that was their thinking, ...
- (Another Scott)
- April 23, 2006, 12:36:18 AM EDT
And Poppa Bush pardoning a bunch
- (Silverlock)
- April 22, 2006, 11:08:23 AM EDT
Re: "Can't Bush just pardon Rove for all crimes,...?"
- (a6l6e6x)
- April 21, 2006, 05:36:26 PM EDT