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NY lawmaker seeks to prevent Bush pardons of “cronies”
Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-New York and chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties, has authored a resolution demanding that President Bush refrain from issuing “pre-emptive pardons of senior officials in his administration during the final 90 days of office.”
The resolution, Nadler says, is in response to Bush’s “widespread abuses of power and potentially criminal transgressions against our Constitution.”
The goal, he says, is to prevent “undeserved pardons of officials who may have been co-conspirators in the president’s unconstitutional policies, such as torture, illegal surveillance and curtailing of due process for defendants.”
“This resolution declares that we will not tolerate a last minute attempt by President Bush to shelter his cronies - cronies who may well be guilty of serious criminal offenses - from the full force of the law,” says Nadler
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By SLSmith
November 21, 2008 4:43 PM | Link to this
Rep. Nadler - thank you, thank you and did I say THANK YOU!
For standing up to the Bush Administration and trying to supersede the Bush Administration’s tricks to avoid what used to be the “rule of law” in the United States.
By Michael
November 24, 2008 10:56 AM | Link to this
Wow. I’m STUNNED. Apparently, the arrogant SOB doesn’t understand about something called the Constitution.
The absolute arrogance of the Demoncrats are unbelievable.
Now that they won, they think they can just ignore all the rules.
They CAN’T.
By Red in WA
November 25, 2008 12:07 PM | Link to this
I guess Jerry Nadler really has no concept of decency or intellectual integrity. First of all, his resolution can “prevent” nothing. Yhe power of pardon is inviolate in the hands of the President. Period. End of discussion. Is this not the same Jerry Nadler who championed the pardon of murdering domestic terrorist Susan Rosenberg by disbarred attorney William Jefferson Clinton?
By NO ILLEGALS... LEFT BEHIND
November 25, 2008 3:03 PM | Link to this
MOTHERS AGAINST SAXBY CHAMBLISS
By NO ILLEGALS... LEFT BEHIND
November 25, 2008 3:04 PM | Link to this
MOTHERS AGAINST SAXBY CHAMBLISS
By WILL BUSH PARDON $axby chambliss also?
November 25, 2008 3:14 PM | Link to this
Bush to consider pardoning $axby Chambliss for misrepresenting the citizens of Georgia.