Posted on 07/02/2007 7:23:02 PM PDT by V.Foster
Let's take a stroll down memory lane with a list of Bill and Hillary's Pardons
President Bush was more than willing to pardon 20,000,000 illegal aliens.
| Roger Clinton | 1. W. D. Ark. | 1. 1985 | 1. Conspiracy to distribute cocaine, 21 U.S.C. § 846 |
| 2. W.D. Ark. | 2. 1985 |
2. Distribution of cocaine, 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) |
Thanks Vince, interesting friends they have.
Hearing on Presidential Pardons Senate Judiciary Committee February 14, 2001
My name is Margaret Love, and I am a lawyer in private practice in Washington. From 1990 to 1997 I served as Pardon Attorney in the Department of Justice, and in that capacity I had primary responsibility for investigating and making recommendations to the President on petitions for pardon and commutation of sentence. For two years prior to that time I served on the personal staff of the Deputy Attorney General, where I oversaw the operation of the Office of the Pardon Attorney. I therefore had firsthand experience with the administration of the pardon power during the administrations of Presidents Bush and Clinton, and I am also familiar with pardoning practices in previous administrations.
I do not intend to speak to the merits of any particular clemency cases decided by President Clinton in his final weeks in office, nor will I speculate about the way in which particular decisions were reached. Rather, I will comment generally on the way President Clinton's pardoning practices differed from the practices of his predecessors, and offer some suggestions about how the administration of the President's pardon power can in the future be reformed so that it can once again play the role envisioned for it by the Framers of the Constitution.
Prior to President Clinton's final grants, the number of situations in which pardon was granted without a prior Attorney General investigation and recommendation pursuant to these regulations could be counted on the fingers of one hand.
This is not to say that the President has always followed the advice of his Attorney General, though the records of the Pardon Attorney and my own experience indicate this was usually the case. But the practice gave the President full access to the facts of a case, to the law enforcement perspective on its merits, and to the counsel of a key member of his Cabinet. And, because the Attorney General never divulged the nature of his recommendation, the President could deflect at least some criticism resulting from a particular grant by referring to his reliance on the Attorney General's advice. Until recently, most pardon warrants signed by the President contained a phrase alluding to the Attorney General's recommendation.
This system worked efficiently and for the most part quietly, resulting in over a hundred grants of pardon and commutation almost every year between 1900 and 1980, most of them to ordinary individuals convicted of garden variety crimes. Pardon warrants were issued four or five times a year, and there was no particular increase in grants at the end of an administration.
Within the White House, the business of reviewing and deciding clemency cases forwarded from the Justice Department became, along with judicial selection, part of the routine housekeeping business of the White House Counsel's office. Until the Clinton administration, this formal and regular process was scrupulously observed by the White House, even after the instance of pardoning began to decline during the administration of President Reagan.
Pardoning Practices During the Clinton Administration
Early in President Clinton's first term there were signs that he might depart from the consistent practice of his predecessors of relying on the Attorney General's advice in clemency matters......
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http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/love1.htm
This must be the 10th list I have sen of Clintons pardons tonight,
The thing that most impressed me was the story of Hillary having the absolute gall to mouth off about Bush’s pardons.
That woman has more crap with her than a herd of constipated elephants.
She needs someone from the Republican party to bust her stupid remarks wide open.
I dont look for that to happen however,Not one Republican has the courage to do it.
Does anyone know the Clinton total pardons numbers compared to G. W. Bush?
You gotta work faster at the thread immigration hijacking, trumandogz.
Number two post is no good. They all start on Post #1 now, and the question is how many seconds after the initial posting of the thread takes place.
I heard the record is eight seconds...:)
Just wait...Michael Savage will destroy her.
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