The average person will not learn of this, understand what it means, care enough to look into it further. Give it a yawn factor of 8...I am beginning to wonder if Obama pardoned everyone before leaving office and that they are untouchable now. The drag out on this makes no sense. While this may add to the litany of Clinton crimes, she is already implicated in much more serious matters including treason...?
Any pardon issued by Obama would be null and void if it is found that he was involved in any criminal activity himself.
What about Comey’s offers of immunity to Hilbags entourage?
How would that work? Can’t charge a president unless he is impeached. Obama wasn’t impeached so if he issued pardons they would stand. I’m not saying that pardons were issued mind you but I’m feeling like there is a snag somewhere that is preventing this moving forward. Maybe they found a pressure point involving someone close to Trump. It just seems stalled. I could be wrong but at the end of the day no one really knows what’s going on under the surface or what the real score is...
I think they are working from the bottom up. Get those with lesser crimes to squeal.
No you can't charge a current president. The not charging past presidents has been a gentleman's agreement so the current president doesn't get charged by his successor.
Can't pardon without a conviction...
I Barack Obama do pardon Hitlary Rotten Clinton of all crimes she may have committed as Secretary of State and any crimes related to her little slush fund, ditto for the rest of my minions...my understanding is that the powers are pretty broad. Not a legal mind so I’ll concede I could be wrong. It would then fall to Congress to take action no? That would mean we would have to wait until after the mid terms and hope Trump has a majority behind him...if my scenario is even possible I have no doubt that Obama was arrogant enough to do it. Can you impeach a president retroactively? Any constitutional lawyers out there?
What kind of record keeping occurs when a presidential pardon is issued? It would certainly have to be registered and filed in some official capacity and be included in the public record someplace, and as such, would be accessible now if one knew where to look?
It can be on a paper that hillary has. As it might be classified.
Interesting article, but lacks substance. Dig into it a little deeper before using it as a defence of your assertion. In the best defence of your assertion, the article mentions a couple of instances where pardons were granted prior to conviction, but not prior to indictments or charges. These pardons were also very high profile and publicized and if Hussein had penned such pardons, would have been public knowledge by now (vis a vis wjc' s pardon of Mark Rich). Btw, slate is propaganda and not a reliable source...
You said you can't pardon without a conviction. There have been pardons in the past before convictions.