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    Dubya pardoning

    Tuesday, November 25, 2008, 10:18 PM GMT [General]

    Says on the BBC news here that Dubya is pardoning 14 prisoners , is this common practise for an outgoing president or is there another reason for it?

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    By Steve on November 28 ,2008
    Is Jonathan Pollard on the list? 23 years in prison?
    Intelligence analyst gather intel for the US to turn over to Israel. Found out US was witholding intel. Pollard told the Israeli Ambassador. and passed the unfiltered intel to Israel, which is what the US agreed to do. Pollard got life for spying! Time to Pardon him!

    Nope, this is common. Nothing behind it. All presidents do it. It's always interesting who they pick, though.

    Bronte19
    November 25, 2008
    11:33 PM GMT

    The United States Constitution grants the President the power to pardon individuals and even groups of individuals (President Carter pardoned the Vietnam draft dogers). This can be a full pardon (overturning a conviction) reduction a sentence. Even a President can be pardoned (Gerald Ford pardoned Nixon).



    Here's an interesting link that shows a table of the number of pardons by president since 1789. Looks like FDR went ape**** with a total of 3,687!

    gertie_girl
    November 26, 2008
    02:13 AM GMT

    Hmm.. an interesting factoid that came out over our Thanksgiving game of Trivial Pursuit - my dad said that FDR actually was in office for 3 terms! (or was it 4??).. and after him they passed the law saying 2 terms was the limit. So, maybe that accounts for why he pardoned so many people.. he had the most opportunity to do so :)



    Pay attention, old people can teach you a lot! :D Sorry dad.

    SleepyWillow
    November 29, 2008
    07:48 AM GMT

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