Can one be issued to a sitting pResident?

Post #182,106 by jbrabeck 11/1/04 9:07:48 PM Reply	Can one be issued to a sitting pResident? A good friend will come and bail you out of jail ... but, a true friend will be sitting next to you saying, "Damn...that was fun!"
Post #182,114 by ben_tilly 11/1/04 9:47:03 PM Reply	Not easily - he can just pardon himself Or, as his father did, pardon everyone involved in a scandal which threatens to climb to his level. Which is why my scenario had Kerry get in office before the legal stuff began climbing the foodchain... Ben I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
Post #182,118 by rcareaga 11/1/04 10:21:55 PM Reply	First dibs I hope that the on the morrow the election's signal-to-noise ratio proves inhospitable both to Dieboldish theft and to plausible lawerly challenge. Should the junta go peacably, I want to be the first to propose a contest: which administration felons will Bush pardon on the eve of ejection? cordially, Cthulhu for President. Why vote for a lesser evil?
Post #182,122 by drewk 11/1/04 10:29:24 PM Reply	Heard on NPR From memory: Both the Democratic and Republican parties have sent thousands of lawyers to Florida in case of lawsuits ... which pretty much guarantees there will be several. This during the news, not an op-ed piece. Loved it. === Implicitly condoning stupidity since 2001.

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