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To: Trust but Verify; wideawake
You can't pardon a person who hasn't been convicted of anything. Duh

Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon, who hadn't been convicted of anything.

Cordially,

60 posted on 03/23/2005 10:11:32 AM PST by Diamond
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To: Diamond

You pardon people of crimes, and can issue a pardon to someone who has not been yet charged. But you can't pardon someone from a civil court order.


72 posted on 03/23/2005 10:22:04 AM PST by Defiant (Make unconstitutional rulings unconstitutional.)
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