Pardoning other people is one thing; pardoning yourself is another.
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This kind of pardoning might pass muster under Jefferson's enlightenment vision, despite his personal desire to eliminate pardoning entirely.
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Trump said Thursday that he is also considering pardoning Martha Stewart and pardoning or commuting the sentence of former Illinois Gov.
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Hiring a hitman to murder former FBI Director James Comey, to thwart his congressional testimony, then pardoning the hitman and pardoning himself. 4.
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The big picture: Pardoning Libby, who was convicted of lying to the FBI and obstruction of justice in 2007, could raise concerns about Trump pardoning his political allies.
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President George H. W. Bush thwarted the Iran-contra investigation by pardoning former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, and President Gerald Ford shut down the investigation of Nixon by pardoning him.
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The idea that pardoning Martha Stewart would send a message.
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Ted Cruz who put pardoning her husband on Trump's Radar.
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Cannes is a festival notorious for pardoning controversial male auteurs.
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Firing Mueller or pardoning Manafort could also spark a backlash.
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Or, indeed, to do any kind of pardoning he wants.
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Trump ended the ceremony by pardoning the bird named Butter.
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The presidential pardoning of a turkey is a Thanksgiving tradition.
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A wet blanket on a holiday spent pardoning televised turkeys.
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Pardoning turkeys is a presidential tradition rife with dark humor.
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She recently slammed Trump for pardoning former Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
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He echoed Trump by saying that despite this legal assertion, Trump would not end up pardoning himself because the "practical limitation" to the pardon power was that a president pardoning himself would constitute political suicide.
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The president&aposs pardoning power has no limits in the Constitution.
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Turkey pardoning became the norm in the White House in 1989.
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I don't know where the President would go forward pardoning himself.
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Trump is considering pardoning any of his former aides, press sec.
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He has no intention of pardoning himself, but he probably does.
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Pulling in a state attorney general prevents Trump from pardoning Manafort.
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President Donald Trump leads the nation's annual Thanksgiving turkey pardoning ceremony.
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The letter did not explicitly describe the possibility of Trump pardoning himself.
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The president has vehemently denied any wrongdoing, so why discuss pardoning oneself?
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The pardoning power does cover Washington, D.C., and military court-martial proceedings.
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I would get more thrill out of pardoning people that nobody knows.
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Trump also said on Friday he was looking into pardoning Muhammad Ali.
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Trump allegedly asked for expedited documents to move the pardoning process forward.
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The president has not explicitly ruled out pardoning his former campaign official.
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The Thanksgiving Day turkey pardoning draws its meaning from different religious traditions.
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Add it all up and the pardoning of Sheriff Joe feels inevitable.
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President Donald Trump sure sounds like he's thinking about pardoning Paul Manafort.
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In his letter, Coffman said pardoning Bergdahl would set a bad precedent.
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Shared a video of his pardoning the Thanksgiving turkey with his family
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Trump has reportedly even asked about pardoning aides, family members, and himself.
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In Illinois, the state government is automatically pardoning and expunging past offenses.
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MORE all waited over a year and a half before pardoning anyone.
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In pardoning him, Mr. Trump shows his contempt of our judicial system.
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Through pardoning conservative commentator Dinesh D'Souza, Trump brushed away campaign finance laws.
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Jefferson's proposal was not adopted, and the Virginia Constitution allowed for pardoning.
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Pardoning Marcus Garvey, albeit tardily, is a small step toward reaffirming this.
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Other presidents had also considered pardoning Mr. Milken, including President Bill Clinton.
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We asked legal experts about the limits of a president's pardoning power.
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Left-wingers like Gleisi Hoffmann, the party's president, have talked of pardoning Lula.
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But true freedom isn't pardoning the crime after the person has been incarcerated.
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President Trump did significant further damage to his presidency by pardoning Joe Arpaio.
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" He said he "would get more thrill out of pardoning people nobody knows.
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Many say there can be no pardoning of the protesters' violence and vandalism.
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Go deeper: Rudy Giuliani says lawyers asked him about Trump pardoning their clients
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" Pardoning Sheriff Joe Arpaio: "Do the people in this room like Sheriff Joe?
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Mass pardoning of illegal immigrants is surely not what the founding fathers intended.
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POTUS participated in his last turkey pardoning ceremony at the White House, Wednesday.
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Still, the lesser but valuable goal of pardoning individual prisoners can pay dividends.
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"I believe pardoning Paul Manafort would be grounds for impeachment," Lieu told CNN.
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Two limits exist on the president's pardoning power under current law and precedents.
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Giuliani said that he and Trump's other lawyers counseled against pardoning Manafort immediately.
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Her book, "Theaters of Pardoning," is forthcoming in 2019 from Cornell University Press.
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Obama "stabbed the American people in the back by pardoning a traitor," Sen.
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Thank you, Madiba, for pardoning my family, me, the whites of South Africa.
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On Friday, a reporter asked Trump about whether he was considering pardoning Flynn.
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Rumsfeld himself was "not sure" what he would have counseled about pardoning Nixon.
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She is the author of Theaters of Pardoning, published by Cornell University Press.
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Mark Meadows and Matt Gaetz were spotted in the audience for the pardoning.
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Former President George H.W. Bush started the tradition of pardoning turkeys in 1989.
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I've heard time and again that the president has virtually unlimited pardoning power.
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He avoids talk of pardoning Lula, to whom he has stopped paying prison visits.
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True, the White House has said the President will likely not be pardoning DREAMers.
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And what he is looking at right now is pardoning a couple of Democrats.
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Want the White House to tell you whether or not it's pardoning a whistleblower?
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Pardoning racist demagogue Sheriff Arpaio right as the storm was beginning to hit. 2.
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MURDOCH: I just like to say thank you, President Trump, for pardoning Jack Johnson.
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Trump said Wednesday afternoon he hadn't even thought about pardoning his former campaign chairman.
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Presidential pardoning power was written into the Article II, Section 2, of the Constitution.
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The Constitution isn't exactly clear on how far presidential pardoning power can be extended.
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Trump has long discussed pardoning Saucier, first starting on the campaign trail in 2016.
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He has publicly speculated about pardoning himself if the special counsel finds he transgressed.
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In pardoning Behenna, Trump cited support from Oklahoma's attorney general and top military brass.
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For months, President Trump has expressed interest in pardoning convicted or accused war criminals.
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Trump has shown no qualms about pardoning his conservative political allies since taking office.
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There are two potential checks on the pardoning power that should be noted upfront.
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First, the Constitution specifically rules out the possibility of pardoning someone for impeachable offenses.
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The Washington Post first reported last night that he had been considering pardoning Johnson.
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In her hands, even my life might come across as momentous and worth pardoning.
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Trump didn't consult the Justice Department before pardoning Sheriff Joe, breaking with presidential tradition.
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The president's vast federal pardoning powers do not apply to violation of state laws.
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Rod R. Blagojevich of Illinois, a Democrat, and pardoning Martha Stewart, the lifestyle guru.
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Smerconish said Saturday he didn't think Trump pardoning the controversial former Maricopa County, Ariz.
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The convention against pardoning himself is one he should think hard about leaving intact.
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"He has no intention of pardoning himself, but that doesn't say he can't." https://t.
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He has demanded that the Justice Department investigate his adversaries and mused about pardoning himself.
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It also called for the pardoning of suffragettes who were jailed for their political campaigning.
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Yesterday, President Donald Trump confirmed that he is open to pardoning Manafort for these crimes.
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The Post raises the possibility of Trump pardoning top advisers, family members and even himself.
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Susan Sarandon tweeted a link to a BBC News piece about Obama pardoning Chelsea Manning.
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Trump retweeted a story from Fox News reporting that he was "seriously considering" pardoning Arpaio.
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EST: President Trump and first lady Melania Trump participate in the National Thanksgiving Pardoning Ceremony.
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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) slammed President Trump for pardoning former Maricopa County, Ariz.
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Trump snapped at a reporter on Tuesday who asked whether he would consider pardoning Cohen.
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" Trump said on Wednesday that pardoning his former campaign chairman was not "off the table.
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Moreover, the process is set up to discourage the President from pardoning for political reasons.
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No one is above the law, not even the wielder of the pardoning power himself.
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What words can you use about someone who considers pardoning war criminals on Memorial Day?
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And I'm sure as hell not pardoning those gutless bastards, if I can't pardon myself.
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Trump's moves on Blagojevich and DeBartolo Jr. were part of a broader pardoning spree Tuesday.
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Trump brought up Cohen after being asked about pardoning his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
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He said he believes the stronger argument is against the legality of presidents pardoning themselves.
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MORE's daughters should "show a little class" during their appearance at an annual turkey pardoning.
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The excerpts have not included a clip of Trump saying he would consider pardoning Manafort.
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Or when she slogged through her seventh turkey pardoning in 2015, groaning at dad's Thanksgiving puns?
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The crisis deepened last month when Ivanov drew protests by pardoning 56 officials over the scandal.
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South Korea has a long history of pardoning the leaders of its largest family-run companies.
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A New York Times op-ed made Trump pardoning Arpaio sound pretty scary and possibly illegal.
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In fact, we should begin right now by pardoning Mr. Reed for his entire opening argument!
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The administration has prepared the pardoning paperwork for at least 30 people, the sources tell CNN.
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Trump on Tuesday used the pardoning ceremony to also joke about recent electoral recounts in Florida.
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But by making that choice, it's almost as though she's subconsciously pardoning herself from being presidential.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he supported pardoning Azaria in a post on his Facebook page.
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Presidential pardoning is one of the most powerful political tools available to a sitting U.S. president.
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Asked Monday if he was considering pardoning anyone, Trump told reporters he hadn't thought about it.
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Don't be fooled into thinking the annual pardoning exercise is just an amusing and harmless exercise.
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On ABC News' "This Week," Giuliani said that there has not been discussion about pardoning Cohen.
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"There is a process set up for pardoning people and he is ignoring it," Gilbert said.
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Mr. Trump may be gambling that in pardoning himself, the courts will see things his way.
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And after 1789, the French revolutionaries abolished the pardoning power that America's elective monarch now retained.
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"I haven't had a conversation with the president about pardons or pardoning individuals," said Mr. Sekulow.
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This dynamic has led Mr. Trump to publicly praise — and privately muse about pardoning — Mr. Manafort.
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Process aside, she said that pardoning the men would be an abrupt departure from the past.
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And, even more importantly, Trump seems to have discovered that ... he kind of likes pardoning people.
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"I haven't had a conversation with the president about pardons or pardoning individuals," Mr. Sekulow said.
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But Trump has a pattern of pardoning people who share his views on issues like immigration.
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Speaking to "Fox & Friends," Trump was asked whether he was considering pardoning his former campaign chairman.
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President Donald Trump is under fire for pardoning the former Phoenix Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Friday.
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Trump pardoning the sheriff "undermines his claim for the respect of rule of law," McCain tweeted.
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" — JAMES CORDEN "Those turkeys should be pardoning him, by the way, not the other way around.
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South Korea has a long history of pardoning the leaders of its largest family-run companies.
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Asked whether he was thinking about pardoning anyone implicated in the Russia investigation, Trump said no.
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His pardoning decision drew ire from the victims&apos families and prosecutors who worked the cases.
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Trump was asked during a "Fox & Friends" interview broadcast Thursday if he was considering pardoning Manafort.
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No sitting president has ever used executive pardoning powers on himself, and if he's impeached, he can't.
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It&aposs more concerning, like you said, though, if he is talking about pardoning thousands of people.
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After pardoning his last turkey, President Barack Obama has a final Thanksgiving message from the Oval Office.
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Nicolae's amendment would include pardoning sentences for bribery, influence peddling, abuse of power and conflict of interest.
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The state has now become a complainant in the case, preventing Baloch's family from pardoning her brother.
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Days before pardoning former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio, President Donald Trump hinted he was considering the decision.
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Even the seemingly inane pardoning of a turkey emphasizes that the idea that public forgiveness is possible.
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Trump retweeted a story from Fox News last week that reported he was "seriously considering" pardoning Arpaio.
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"Pendejo," Castro tweeted, shortly after the White House announced Trump would be pardoning former Maricopa County, Ariz.
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The President did not rule out the possibility of pardoning Cohen when asked by reporters last week.
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We are in DC for pardoning of Jack Johnson who was wrongfully convicted of violating #TheMannAct pic.twitter.
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Trump didn't rule out pardoning Flynn while speaking with reporters earlier this month at the White House.
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Still, Paul said he would warn a president against issuing their own pardon or pardoning family members.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The president of the United States is talking about pardoning himself about not being indicted.
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He hasn't ruled out pardoning his former aides for possible crimes related to the 2016 campaign. Rep.
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All demographic segments of the public were opposed to the idea of Trump pardoning his former associates.
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By pardoning him, Trump has sent a message to police officers at the core of his base.
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Per a source familiar, White House counsel Don McGahn is skeptical of the merits of pardoning Johnson.
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On Trump pardoning himself: 59% of voters disagree with the idea of Trump issuing a self-pardon.
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He's pardoned political allies and the deceased boxer Jack Johnson, and considered pardoning celebrities like Martha Stewart.
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I encourage President Obama to exercise his constitutional pardoning power and grant clemency to Oscar López-Rivera.
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The president has mused publicly about pardoning Joe Arpaio, the controversial former sheriff of Maricopa County, Ariz.
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Jefferson's skepticism about the pardon power nevertheless shows the enlightenment roots of longstanding American critiques of pardoning.
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Trump signed the order pardoning former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Friday after weeks of speculation.
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Like the White House, the centuries-old inn has been hosting a turkey pardoning event for years.
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His pardoning decision drew ire from the victims&apos families and prosecutors who worked the cases alike.
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When asked by Fox News Wednesday about whether he was considering pardoning Manafort, Trump skirted the question.
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I actually think there should be a higher standard for pardoning," McCain said on ABC's "The View.
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"He already has," I said, referring to Trump's pardoning of lawbreaking allies (Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Dinesh D'Souza).
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While there's no federal precedent for Trump pardoning his aides, there is one at the state level.
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Justice can be served here, if something like the commutation of the sentence or a pardoning is happening.
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INGRAHAM: But you are saying the pardoning of Dinesh D&aposSouza could be tantamount to obstruction of justice?
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I want to look back at that because the president has been busy with his pardoning this week.
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" Trump added that pardoning "famous people" like Ali was "in one way easier and people find it fascinating.
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Blagojevich's wife personally made the case for pardoning her husband on Tucker Carlson's Fox News show last month.
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In principle the new king could wipe the slate clean by pardoning Mr Thaksin, allowing him to return.
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President Trump participates in a turkey pardoning at the Rose Garden of the White House on Nov. 20.
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The pardoning of Mr Fujimori came days after a similar effort by Michel Temer, Brazil's stand-in president.
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"Trump told the New York Post he hasn't discussed pardoning Paul Manafort but it's "not off the table.
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" Timeline for pardoning Arpaio: "When we have an announcement on what that decision is, we'll let you know.
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In the particular instance of pardoning a turkey, the rite may seem so trite as to not apply.
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Obama would face a lot of criticism for pardoning Snowden, and not all Democrats would praise the decision.
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Trump also said Friday that he was considering pardoning TV personality Martha Stewart and commuting former Illinois Gov.
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Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), a vocal Trump detractor, also called on the president Wednesday to avoid pardoning Manafort.
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According to D'Souza, it was Cruz who raised the issue with Trump and made D'Souza's pardoning a priority.
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She added that in the pardoning of Scooter Libby, Trump believed it "was the right thing to do."
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President Donald Trump announced on Sunday that he's "strongly considering" pardoning his former national security adviser, Michael Flynn.
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Ms. Sanders said that, to her knowledge, Mr. Trump had not discussed the idea of pardoning Mr. Manafort.
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And with respect to other people being investigated by Mueller, President Trump has the option of pardoning them.
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"I'm not going to talk about his thinking, but I think pardoning Blagojevich would be stupid," Illinois Rep.
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Trump is going full throttle on pardoning his pals and pals of his pals in an election year.
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Not for nothing, discussing pardoning yourself and your family at the beginning of an investigation looks super guilty.
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Mr. Trump has already demonstrated that he is willing to use his pardoning power to stomach-churning effect.
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The President said he hasn't considered pardoning Manafort, but did not rule out the possibility in the future.
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For months, President Trump has tried, using winks and nods, to signal that he's open to pardoning Manafort.
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The Greenberg poll additionally found that 69 percent would oppose the president pardoning his aides or family members.
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But whether or not pardoning Manafort is a good idea for Trump personally, Trump certainly can do it.
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President Trump said Thursday he was considering pardoning or commuting the sentences of Martha Stewart and former Illinois Gov.
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"I am seriously thinking about – not pardoning – but I am seriously thinking of a curtailment of Blagojevich," Trump said.
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Early in 13, President Barack Obama began pardoning and otherwise shortening the prison sentences of hundreds of federal inmates.
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You know, there is this speculation now that perhaps the president is considering pardoning Paul Manafort at some point.
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I'm also pardoning Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Jeff Sessions, Steve Bannon, my friend Jim, and myself.
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For more than a year Hunter has championed the cause of pardoning Behenna, a 35-year-old Oklahoma native.
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And when asked directly about the prospect of pardoning his former campaign chairman, Trump has not ruled it out.
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The "precedent" offered by anti-borders groups is President Carter's mass pardoning of Vietnam War draft-dodgers in 1977.
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It helps explain the report on Fox News on Monday that Trump is considering pardoning Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
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Last year, he asked him about the possibility of Trump pardoning Michael Cohen, the president's former fixer and lawyer.
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That's one reason why his comment to reporters Thursday that he was thinking of pardoning jailed former Illinois Gov.
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He said the "practical limitation" to the power was that a president pardoning himself would likely trigger impeachment proceedings.
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Last week, Trump told reporters he was considering pardoning Martha Stewart and commuting the sentence of former Illinois Gov.
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"I'm not going to talk about his thinking, but I think pardoning Blagojevich would be stupid," said Illinois Rep.
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The president was criticized on Friday night for pardoning Joe Arpaio, the controversial former sheriff of Maricopa County, Ariz.
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On Thursday, Trump also said he was considering pardoning Martha Stewart and commuting the sentence of former Illinois Gov.
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If that were the case, there would be no reason for the president to even consider pardoning himself now.
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It has been rumored that Trump is considering pardoning Manafort despite warnings from his legal team against doing so.
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Disguised as a hypothetical situation, Trump's first rationale for pardoning himself was simply that he didn't do anything wrong.
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Former Sheriff Joe Arpaio's first thought after hearing that President Trump was pardoning him was: Is this fake news?
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Besides, all this pardoning nonsense doesn't seem to fit that tough persona President Trump is always trying to convey.
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"The president of the United States pardoning himself is unthinkable ... it would probably lead to immediate impeachment," he said.
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The problem is that the president has also praised Ward, while pardoning Arpaio following his conviction for criminal contempt.
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In pardoning Libby, Trump believes he proved his point about the mixed motives of some within the intelligence community.
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Pardoning Edward Snowden and welcoming him home as a patriot and privacy adviser would be a very good start.
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It also seems likely that pardoning Manafort at this point would be a significant political problem for the president.
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While the Constitution prohibits pardoning "in cases of impeachment," he certainly could blanket pardon himself before an impeachment proceeding.
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Jimmy Fallon on Monday previewed the turkey-pardoning ceremony set to take place Tuesday afternoon at the White House.
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The two turkeys, Drumstick and Wishbone, participating in this year's National Thanksgiving Turkey Pardoning Ceremony have arrived in DC!
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Conan's surprise appearance came one day before Trump is set to participate in the annual pardoning of Thanksgiving turkeys.
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The announcement wasn't just a process foul -- it may indicate a new presidential policy of preemptively pardoning his pals.
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" One must ask, did the pardoning of Arpaio "give … people a reason to want to come to our country?
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The former director of the Office of Government Ethics ripped President Trump for pardoning controversial former Maricopa County, Ariz.
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"The point is, pardoning Manafort would be a, would be seen as a political disaster for the President," Sen.
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Trump seems to bring controversy with him wherever he goes, and that includes the simple act of pardoning turkeys.
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The pardoning of Richard Nixon sent the message to people like Mr. Trump that they are above the law.
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Fox News reporter Ainsley Earhardt, who interviewed Trump, said he had told her that he would consider pardoning Manafort.
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They were freed in exchange for the pardoning of seven Iranian-Americans held in the U.S. who had violated sanctions.
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Pam says it would be "the smartest move" -- not sure if she meant her visiting Trump, or Trump pardoning Assange.
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After the pardoning, Drumstick and Wishbone will join last year's turkeys, Tater and Tot, at Virginia Tech's "Gobblers Rest" exhibit.
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Latinos — Republicans and Democrats — had expressed worry that Trump doesn't fully understand how big an impact pardoning Arpaio will have.
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The answer to this question is a bit more complicated, as there's no court precedent for a president pardoning himself.
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Trump's team would likely respond that he's well within his presidential powers to pardon, or consider pardoning, anyone he wants.
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Trump retweeted a story from Fox News last week that reported he was "seriously considering" pardoning the convicted former sheriff.
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The move comes days after Trump told reporters he was considering commuting Blagojevich's sentence, as well as pardoning Martha Stewart.
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Trump has not ruled out pardoning Manafort, saying last week he feels "very badly" for his former campaign head. Sen.
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In fact, Trump has begun pardoning folks with seeming reckless abandon at an early point in his tenure as president.
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J.B. Pritzker indicated interest in pardoning what could be hundreds of inmates who were placed behind bars over marijuana offenses.
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A Presidential pardon is a possibility, but Trump, in his CBS interview, said that he had not considered pardoning Stone.
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The senator has been a frequent critic of the president, most recently criticizing Trump for pardoning former Maricopa County, Ariz.
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The officials told The Times that the White House issued the paperwork requests to begin the pardoning process on Friday.
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"Pardoning himself would be unthinkable and probably lead to immediate impeachment," Giuliani told NBC's "Meet the Press" earlier this month.
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The president is considering pardoning himself as a way to avoid a Department of Justice investigation into his electoral campaign?
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Only if President Trump believes that he may be guilty of a crime would he be interested in pardoning himself.
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On Sunday, two turkeys arrived at their five-star hotel in Washington, D.C., to await pardoning by President Donald Trump.
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Pardoning those accused of war crimes or human rights abuses is also dark, but it is not a laughing matter.
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Thousands of government and opposition supporters held separate rallies to protest at the pardoning of officials from the other side.
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By pardoning former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Trump sent the message that discriminatory tactics were permitted in immigration enforcement.
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Additionally, Trump might incur a political cost by pardoning a convicted felon who has lied and cheated at every turn.
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"He's basically saying he doesn't have to pardon anybody," Scaramucci said when asked who the president is thinking about pardoning.
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While pardoning Fujimori might help Kuczynski ease tensions with Congress, it would anger the leftist groups that helped elect him.
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Former Kentucky governor Matt Bevin faced backlash after pardoning more than 600 convicted individuals prior to his departure from office.
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Legal scholars told Insider that pardoning someone convicted of a war crime could potentially be viewed as a war crime.
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Fox News reporter Ainsley Earhardt said Trump told her in an interview on Wednesday that "he would consider" pardoning Manafort.
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Pardoning Manafort would look like, and perhaps be, an effort to use presidential power to cover up Trump's own wrongdoing.
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While pardoning criminal offenses is not the same as pardoning someone from an impeachment, which is what is expressly forbidden, allowing a sitting president to use the pardon power to intentionally thwart an investigation into his own possible wrongdoing would run afoul of the spirit and purpose of the impeachment exception of Article II, § 2.
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Earlier this month AK tabled a bill pardoning statutory rapists who marry their victims, before shelving it following a popular outcry.
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Fifth Harmony's Lauren Jauregui posted a lengthy note to Twitter calling Trump's decision "disgusting" and criticizing his pardoning of Joe Arpaio.
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He stopped the impeachment by resigning as a result of Watergate and he stopped the indictment by President Ford pardoning him.
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But Mr Trump's pardoning spree is not just a worrying departure from presidential norms because he appears to be rewarding allies.
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Pardoning turkeys is a White House tradition which helps remind birds that Americans can both give life and take it away.
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In November, Teresa said she was open to talking to Trump about possibly pardoning Joe to prevent his court-ordered deportation.
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The president of the United States pardoning himself would just be unthinkable, and it would lead to probably an immediate impeachment.
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A very public act of pardoning, as in this case, reminds us about the important role rituals themselves play in society.
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In June, after pardoning conservative commentator Dinesh D'Souza, The Hill reported that Trump was considering half a dozen additional potential pardons.
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" "I never met him, I called him last night, first time I've ever spoken to him, I said, I'm pardoning you.
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Following his transparently political role in the failed Whitewater investigation, Mr. Comey pursued Bill Clinton for pardoning Marc Rich in 2001.
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He could not obliterate a new criminal law by officially pardoning anyone and everyone who might violate it in the future.
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While Obama's presidency will be remembered for many precedent-shattering actions, the turkey pardoning created at least one poultry-related one.
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The president also invited headlines while musing about pardoning TV personality Martha Stewart and commuting the sentence of former Illinois Gov.
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What Trump is pardoning: D'Souza was indicted in 2014 for violating campaign finance laws in Wendy Long's 2012 U.S. Senate race.
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An Op-Ed article on Thursday about pardoning Edward Snowden misstated when Eric H. Holder Jr. left office as attorney general.
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He has used the pardoning power as one of his few unfettered prerogatives, in just the undemocratic way Enlightenment thinkers feared.
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Yes, pardoning everyone associated with the president seems like a disaster, but firing Mr. Mueller is just as much a disaster.
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And in other meetings with senior advisers, the president raised the prospect of pardoning Mr. Flynn, according to two people present.
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Last year, Trump said it was too early to consider pardoning any of his associates caught up in the Russia probe.
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And some observers have speculated that Trump is trying to wield his pardoning powers to boost his approval among African Americans.
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He seems to delight in destroying alliances, abrogating international agreements, lauding dictators and racists, threatening nuclear war and pardoning unrepentant criminals.
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What to expect: Under President Barack Obama, the event included a lot of dad jokes about presidential pardoning power and turkeys.
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One official who spoke to the Post anonymously said the president's statements about pardoning wrongdoers in his administration are just jokes.
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Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, cast the issue of Mr. Trump pardoning himself in similar terms on Tuesday.
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Finally, perhaps the most unusual aspect of the Arpaio pardon concerns Trump's likely reasons for pardoning him in the first place.
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"No — there is no consideration at the White House of pardoning Michael Flynn," Cobb said in an email to The Hill.
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Trump and his backers have worked for years to discredit Mueller's Russia investigation, and Trump has previously talked about pardoning Manafort.
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And before the end of the day, Trump teased the eventual possibility of pardoning Stone, his longtime friend and political booster.
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Rod Blagojevich of Illinois, a onetime contestant on Trump's "Celebrity Apprentice," and pardoning Martha Stewart, who hosted a "Celebrity Apprentice" spinoff.
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After Alexander won the Tennessee governorship in 1978, the outgoing Democratic governor began accepting payments in exchange for pardoning convicted criminals.
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It is important to note that Trump's pardon technically falls within legal boundaries, as presidents are constitutionally granted broad pardoning powers.
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"No — there is no consideration at the White House of pardoning Michael Flynn," Cobb said in an email to The Hill.
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Retired Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio (R) is back in the spotlight as President Trump considers pardoning him for a federal conviction.
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The retweet came after Trump shared a story from "Fox & Friends" which said the president was "seriously considering" pardoning Joe Arpaio.
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In the same interview, he said "flipping" witnesses should be illegal and seemed to leave the door open to pardoning Manafort.
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Straightforward from here: Turkey runs awayRunaway turkey eats Mike PenceDonald Trump pardons the turkeyPresident Turkey For more turkey pardoning trivia, read Brad Plumer's explainer about how this strange White House tradition actually has roots in the Iran-Contra scandal, why the turkeys actually go on to lead miserable lives, and how a president's pardoning power is rarely used.
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" The president said Friday that he is considering as many as 3,000 pardons and that the pardoning power is "a beautiful thing.
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Pardoning the DREAMers will simply allow them to live without fear of removal, and to potentially adjust their status in the future.
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But in pardoning Manning, the White House made sure to point out that government officials don't believe Manning and Snowden are equatable.
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GIGOT: OK. So when you suggested pardoning, you were saying everybody, that included Hillary Clinton, anybody involved in Clinton e-mail case.
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Amid reports that Trump was thinking about pardoning Arpaio, the site put up an explainer on the scope of presidential pardon power.
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De los Angeles doesn't live in Tlaxcala, though a placard by the main entrance honors her for pardoning a bull here once.
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The big picture: President Trump faced criticism — particularly from veterans — for considering pardoning Gallagher, among other service members accused of war crimes.
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But to succeed in the general election he must not drive away those voters who revile the sheriff and oppose his pardoning.
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Warner asked his fellow legislators to speak out against Mueller's firing or the pardoning of any key witnesses involved in the investigation.
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In the same ABC interview, Buttigieg blasted reports that Trump is considering pardoning military service members accused or convicted of war crimes.
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Pardoning Snowden is the right thing to do, and if you care about a free and secure internet, you should support it.
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Gerald Ford poisoned his own presidency from the start by pardoning Richard Nixon, thereby setting a precedent for protecting executive branch lawbreaking.
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They were among 85033 turkeys raised for this year's pardoning event and will live at Virginia Tech's "Gobbler's Rest" exhibit going forward.
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Trump has faced bipartisan criticism for pardoning Arpaio, whose lawyers went to court Monday to throw out the basis for his conviction.
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It already has been reported, before Manafort's trial conviction and cooperation plea, that Trump at least discussed the possibility of pardoning Manafort.
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Other aspects beyond a tug-of-war with the Justice Department may be involved in Trump's pardoning decisions, such as personal vendettas.
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The development comes on the heels of Trump's pardoning of conservative pundit Dinesh D'Souza, who had pleaded guilty to campaign finance charges.
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OPINION An Op-Ed article on Thursday about pardoning Edward Snowden misstated when Eric H. Holder Jr. left office as attorney general.
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Clinton over the email issue, said that if Mr. Trump won, Mr. Obama could eliminate the threat by pre-emptively pardoning her.
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The White House has reportedly drafted the paperwork necessary for when Trump makes a decision on pardoning the 85-year-old Arpaio.
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Why it matters: Giuliani's statement confirms that Trump had shown interest in pardoning Manafort after he was found guilty of financial crimes.
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However, close examination of this precedent reveals a gulf between Trump's political use of pardoning and that favored by Washington and Johnson.
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But it isn't apparent what else the U.S. would get for pardoning a company that Washington views as an arm of Beijing.
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Some of this has since been contradicted by White House press secretary Sarah Sanders, who dismissed questions about the president pardoning himself.
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Could Trump kneecap Mueller by pardoning Manafort, signaling that he's willing to hand out pardons to anyone wrapped up in the investigation?
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And President Trump has indicated that he is "looking" at pardoning "two or three" service members accused or convicted of war crimes.
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Mr. Trump declined last week to broach the subject of pardoning his former campaign chairman and did not address it on Tuesday.
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Since then, White House officials have also denied that Trump has seriously considered pardoning any members of his administration who commit crimes.
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"Democrats are accusing me of being too soft on Turkey," Mr. Trump said in pardoning two white fowls named Bread and Butter.
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By pardoning Arpaio, Trump has endorsed Arpaio's abhorrent behavior and has opened the gates for other bigots to follow in his footsteps.
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The White House tradition of pardoning a pair of turkeys during the Thanksgiving holiday is a form of nationally accepted dark humor.
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"Crooked Hillary Clinton's top aid, Huma Abedin, has been accused of disregarding basic security protocols," Trump tweeted just months before pardoning Saucier.
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We are aware of no precedent for a sovereign pardoning himself, then abdicating or being deposed but being immune from criminal process.
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Few people know that no less a figure than Thomas Jefferson, drafter of the Declaration of Independence, was highly suspicious of pardoning.
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Beto O'Rourke proposed a constitutional amendment banning presidents from pardoning anyone tied to an investigation involving the president, or for family members.
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That is, the Framers took care to provide that the president cannot thwart his own impeachment by pardoning himself of impeachable offenses.
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The White House turkeys have officially arrived in Washington, D.C., for the pardoning ceremony, which is set to take place on Tuesday.
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By pardoning Mr. Fujimori to save his presidency, Mr. Kuczynski has inflicted great damage on democracy in Peru and in the region.
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As Vox's Andrew Prokop explains, actually pardoning White House aides for involvement in a major ongoing political scandal would be completely unprecedented.
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Mainstream scholars do not think that Trump will be able to get away with simply ignoring Mueller's findings or pardoning everyone involved.
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Trump told reporters ahead of his departure to the G-7 summit in Canada that he was thinking "very seriously" about pardoning Ali.
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The president said later in the day he would consider pardoning or commuting the sentences of Martha Stewart, center, and former Illinois Gov.
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JIM ACOSTA, CNN: The president not only announced he is pardoning a darling of the far-right, Dinesh D&aposSouza as you said.
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Last year, the annual Thanksgiving Turkey pardoning saw the commander-in-chief directly address his penchant for some good old-fashioned dad humor.
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Washington (CNN)President Barack Obama dished out some final Thanksgiving puns Wednesday as he performed the ceremonial White House task of pardoning turkeys.
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A representative for Kardashian West confirmed to PEOPLE that she has been speaking with Kushner about the possibility of President Trump pardoning Johnson.
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Shortly after his death, in an effort to ease the transition to democracy, Spain passed a pact pardoning political crimes committed under Franco.
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He could seek a grand bargain, for example by pardoning Ms Fujimori's father, Alberto, an autocratic former president jailed for abuses of power.
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Trump pardons "Drumstick" the turkey at the National Thanksgiving Turkey pardoning ceremony in the Rose Garden at the White House on Nov. 43.
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Trump raised eyebrows last week when he told Fox News that he was "seriously considering" pardoning Arpaio, which he did just days later.
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Buttigieg also used his military service to explain his view of Trump possibly pardoning servicemen and women who were charged with war crimes.
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Although the turkeys offer no offense, their presidential pardoning invites the question: What is the significance of such a public rite of forgiveness?
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" Ty Cobb, the White House special counsel, said later: "There is no consideration being given to pardoning Michael Flynn at the White House.
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"Let me just tell you that from - from my perspective - I don't think the president needs any advice on pardoning himself," McConnell said.
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" Giuliani also said on NBC's "Meet the Press" Sunday that Trump pardoning himself is "unthinkable" and "would lead to probably an immediate impeachment.
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But there are limits to who Trump will consider and at least one one person Trump most certainly is not thinking about pardoning.
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After a reporter interrupts to ask whether it's OJ Simpson, Trump says no and then spills the beans: He's thinking about pardoning Ali!
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Trump, who signed the paperwork formally pardoning D'Souza before announcing it on Twitter, had never met or spoken with D'Souza before this week.
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CLARIFICATION: This story has been updated to make clear the White House has said there has been no talk of Trump pardoning Manafort.
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You don't have to be a lawyer to recognize that something about this process seems wrong; most Americans were against Trump pardoning Arpaio.
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If McCabe is not charged, Trump could cite that decision as the basis for pardoning Flynn, as a matter of equity and fairness.
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Trump has been making questionable decisions, like pardoning Sheriff Joe Arpaio, while simultaneously lecturing the country about the importance of law and order.
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There is nothing to stop Mr. Trump from pardoning Cohen, Mike Flynn, or anyone else from any illegal acts they have ever committed.
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"I think in a political sphere, I would caution someone to think about pardoning themselves or family members or et cetera," said Paul.
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A sincere apology relies on a logical corollary: forgiveness by those to whom the apology is issued and a pardoning of the wrong.
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That would be one way for Trump to try to undercut the investigations; the other way would be to start pardoning his associates.
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A president pardoning close aides and family members in an ongoing investigation, therefore shielding them from federal charges or consequences, would be unprecedented.
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President Trump addressed the question of whether or not his pardoning power extends to himself and the Mueller investigation on Twitter Monday morning.
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Pardoning Sheriff Joe Arpaio for violating the Constitution could be defended, however dubiously, as merely an act of compassion for an old man.
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By pardoning the elder Mr. Fujimori, after his conviction as a human rights abuser, the president alienated supporters who had remained with him.
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Despite Trump's absolutism on his pardoning power, as Vox's Sean Illing explained, constitutional scholars are divided on a president's ability to self-pardon.
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"Donald Trump is an absolute coward for pardoning a man who engaged in racist police practices," said Representative Ruben Gallego, Democrat of Arizona.
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By pardoning D'Souza, who has said more disgusting things than Barr, Trump sends a rejoinder: his supporters can cross any lines they please.
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You know the holiday season has officially begun when the White House segues from pardoning the Thanksgiving turkeys to unveiling the Christmas decorations.
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For that reason, I expect the president to hold off on pardoning anyone until it becomes absolutely necessary for him to do so.
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Firing Mueller or pardoning Manafort would break with decades, if not centuries, of precedent for how American presidents treat the criminal justice system.
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Republicans concerned about their party's future may blanch at Trump's pardoning of the sadistic racist Joe Arpaio or his gleeful unleashing of law enforcement.
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And pardoning those accused, who have not even stood trial before a military court charged with administering justice, is especially contrary to established norms.
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Even better would be if King Vajiralongkorn helped foster a less confrontational political climate by pardoning those convicted of lèse-majesté in recent years.
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Ehrlichman was never a zealot for Nixon in the manner of his colleague Bob Haldeman, and he never forgave Nixon for not pardoning him.
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BARACK OBAMA Despite Sasha and Malia's protests, former President Obama went on a roll with his dad jokes while pardoning a turkey in 2016.
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The Justice Department is generally consulted about pardoning decisions, although there is no requirement for the President to do so before granting a pardon.
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Trump eventually decided to let the case go to trial with the plan of pardoning Arpaio if he was convicted, according to the report.
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In pardoning Arpaio, Trump reaffirms his war on political correctness -- one of the central tenets of his 2016 campaign and, he believes, his appeal.
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" Giuliani also said on NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday that Trump pardoning himself is "unthinkable" and "would lead to probably an immediate impeachment.
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PARIS — The National Assembly voted an amnesty law early today [April 22] pardoning 1,675 persons convicted of anti-government activity during the Algerian war.
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After a public outcry over Ms. Baloch's death, however, officials announced on Monday that the Azeem family would be barred from pardoning her killer.
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"It doesn't just reveal itself in the betrayal of the 'Dreamers,' or the pardoning of a sheriff who has terrorized this community," Biden said.
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Pardoning Manafort might do it, and certainly a self-pardon or issuing pardons for members of Trump's immediate family could produce the same result.
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U.S. offers clemency The United States is pardoning or commuting the sentence of an Iranian and six dual citizens as part of the deal.
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Trump said he's thinking "very seriously" about pardoning the late boxing legend Muhammad Ali, convicted of refusing to be drafted during the Vietnam War.
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On Tuesday, the Obama administration announced that the President was pardoning or shortening sentences to several people, including Cartwright and WikiLeaks source Chelsea Manning.
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" Trump's attorney in the White House, Ty Cobb, later said there was "no consideration being given to pardoning Michael Flynn at the White House.
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Trump ended up pardoning Butter, and Bread will also live the rest of its short life at "Gobblers Rest" on the Virginia Tech campus.
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For those two presidents, pardoning represented a technique of transitional justice, reintegrating rebels who had fought against the federal government while acknowledging their defeat.
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The Times reports that President Trump's personal lawyer discussed pardoning Michael Flynn, Trump's former national security adviser, and Paul Manafort, his former campaign chairman.
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We don't know if President Trump authorized this outreach, although according to news reports he was talking with advisers about pardoning Flynn at least.
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Did you wonder how Kim Kardashian West's meeting with President Trump (the one that led to the pardoning of Alice Marie Johnson) came about?
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He has pardoned multiple individuals since taking office, publicly toyed with pardoning himself, and seems to broadcast his ability to pardon people pretty regularly.
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This critique prompted the framers to articulate a second, more important explanation for vesting the pardoning power in the president: protecting the nation's security.
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Within his first year in office he had set a template for action by pardoning Joseph Arpaio, the former sheriff in Maricopa County, Ariz.
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The president became a vocal supporter of Chief Gallagher in the months leading to his trial and considered pardoning him before it took place.
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It would be rather odd for a deposed King James I to claim that he could remain king by pardoning himself after his overthrow.
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Pardoning a company that failed to punish employees who violated American trade controls against Iran and North Korea could set a difficult precedent, however.
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Ever since he discovered his pardoning powers, he's been dangling presidential pardons as incentives, like a lonely birthday boy promising some awesome goody bags.
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But there are also multiple people who have advised Trump that pardoning his former adviser would be harmful politically during his run for reelection.
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Ultimately, the Mississippi Supreme Court ruled 6 to 3 that it could not interfere with Mr. Barbour's pardoning authority, and the pardons were upheld.
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Trump has recently exercised his pardon power for the first time in Arizona, pardoning Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio from a potential criminal conviction.
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On the day the President wrongly attacks Comey for being a "leaker and liar" he considers pardoning a convicted leaker and liar, Scooter Libby.
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Perhaps other gaps remain for a lazy or abusive president, or for one who abuses his powers over foreign policy and firing or pardoning.
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Think about the implications — can you imagine a president murdering a cabinet member or a federal judge and then pardoning himself a moment later?
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But pardoning or excusing American war criminals will impact that trust and have long-lasting consequences on the battlefield, writes retired US Army Col.
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Former Kentucky governor Matt Bevin faced backlash after pardoning hundreds of convicted individuals prior to his departure from office, The New York Times reported.
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Watergate obviously destroyed Richard M. Nixon's presidency and even that of his successor, Gerald R. Ford, who was punished by voters for pardoning him.
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We also know that Trump's personal lawyer floated the possibility of pardoning Manafort and Flynn, presumably to influence their decisions to cooperate with Mueller.
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"A total of 13,200 people have since been handed certificates of pardoning," the Fana Broadcasting Corporation said, quoting a statement from the Attorney General's Office.
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The singer posted a lengthy note to Twitter criticizing the sitting president for his stance on DACA and mentioning the recent pardoning of Joe Arpaio.
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Early Tuesday morning aboard Air Force One, en route to the NATO summit, President Donald Trump signed an official clemency order pardoning the two men.
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Why it matters: The case had drawn waves of onlookers, including President Trump, who came to Gallagher's defense throughout the trial and considered pardoning him.
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Although no fan of presidential self-pardoning, Jonathan Turley, a professor of law at George Washington University, finds nothing in the constitution that bars it.
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Some people have questioned whether Trump pardoning Arpaio is outside the scope of his authority, as he was charged with contempt of court in Arizona.
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Days after Trump won the election, the White House press secretary was asked by Jordan Fabian of The Hill whether Obama would consider pardoning Clinton.
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The notion that Trump is even considering pardoning himself has alarmed legal experts, who have pointed out how far the president is straying from precedent.
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But the announcement raised the possibility that President Donald Trump could again see Manafort as an ally and antagonist of Mueller, and consider pardoning him.
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The president has used his pardon power five other times since taking office, including the controversial pardoning of former Sheriff Joe Arpaio in August 2017.
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Pardoning incarcerated people or commuting their sentences largely fell out of vogue during the tough-on-crime era at both the state and federal level.
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Rowan compared pardoning less-than-honorable discharges through executive action to President Carter issuing full pardons in 1977 to Americans who had avoided the draft.
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Pardoning those who may have committed egregious crimes — indeed, Lorance was found guilty of doing so — could impact the influence of commanders over their troops.
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According to ABC News, after a request from Malia and Sasha, Obama began pardoning both turkeys, though only one gets the official on-camera clemency.
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He&aposs pardoning people that have been unjustly put in prison for racial bias, going back, you know, with the pardon of this famous boxer.
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But, but, but: The Constitution only explicitly prevents the president from pardoning himself in cases of impeachment, so any other instances are an open question.
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President Clinton reportedly came close to pardoning Mr. Milken in the waning days of his presidency, but didn't after an outcry from Justice Department officials.
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Between ending DACA, pardoning former Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and hosting a combative rally in Arizona, President Donald Trump is making life hard for Texas Rep.
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Rod Blagojevich of Illinois, who is in prison for corruption, and pardoning Martha Stewart, who served time for lying to investigators about a stock sale.
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Read more " _____ Frank O. Bowman III in Impeachable Offenses: "Yesterday, by pardoning former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Mr. Trump committed his first verifiable impeachable offense.
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He argued that Trump has no regard for the military when he does things like refusing to read the intelligence reports or pardoning war criminals.
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Trump publicly floated the idea of pardoning Paul Manafort in 2018 while his former campaign chairman was under pressure to testify in the Russia investigation.
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By pardoning accused and convicted war criminals, the president is sending a message that this nation will allow unconscionable crimes of war to go unpunished.
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Perez tore into Arpaio, the former Maricopa County sheriff whom Trump said he is considering pardoning, saying he used racial profiling and tore families apart.
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"The tragedy of pardoning Lorance isn&apost that he will be released from prison — I&aposve found room for compassion there," former US Army Capt.
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President Trump threatened both those pillars by pardoning Clint Lorance, a former Army officer serving a 19-year sentence for murdering two civilians, and Maj.
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But Trump senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner, who has internally championed pardons and commutations, reportedly suggested pardoning Blagojevich would appeal to Democrats.
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President Trump has repeatedly characterized Mr. Manafort as a "brave man," and indicated that he had not ruled out pardoning his former top campaign official.
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On Saturday, Iran released four American prisoners — including Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian — in exchange for the US pardoning or dropping charges against seven Iranians.
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Trump has hinted at pardoning Arpaio, who now has a criminal conviction related to the aggressive immigration raids he orchestrated as the Maricopa County sheriff.
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Trump also said he was considering pardoning lifestyle maven Martha Stewart and commuting the prison sentence of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, convicted of corruption charges.
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This is the second holiday-related event Sasha and Malia decided to sit out this year: they recently skipped President Obama's annual pardoning of the turkey.
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President this week pardoning Dinesh D&aposSouza, conservative commentator, provocateur, who had pleaded guilty to using straw donors to make illegal campaign donations for his (Inaudible).
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Addressing Peruvians for the first time since pardoning Fujimori on Christmas Eve, Kuczynski appealed to Peruvians protesting his decision to "turn the page" and accept it.
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In an effort to ease the transition to democracy after his death, Spain passed a pact pardoning political crimes committed during the conflict and his dictatorship.
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The current White House press secretary shared two photos on Twitter leading up to the pardoning of the White House turkey, as is traditional at Thanksgiving.
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Hegseth, however, tweeted a link on Monday night to The Daily Beast's story, adding a series of hashtags seemingly calling for the pardoning of some servicemen.
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The White House did not immediately respond to CNBC's request to clarify the president's views on pardoning figures related to special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe.
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The ombudsmen of Russia and Ukraine said in Moscow later on Tuesday they were discussing the possibility of the Ukrainian and Russian presidents pardoning some prisoners.
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But there is no legitimate purpose for pardoning Manafort, who is simply guilty of crimes and facing the normal punishment for them laid out in law.
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There's always the slim chance that Manafort is banking on Trump pardoning him, as the President has already shown an interest in his power to pardon.
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Moon has also vowed to end the practice of pardoning convicted corporate criminals and to break up the cozy relationship between big business and the government.
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"I would stress to the administration in the strongest possible terms that pardoning or commuting the sentence of Rod Blagojevich would be a mistake," said Rep.
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Rod Blagojevich got a new lifeline on Thursday when President Donald Trump said he would consider pardoning or commuting his sentence on his federal corruption conviction.
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Trump did so last week, pardoning Scooter Libby, former chief of staff for Vice President Dick Cheney, for obstructing justice, perjury and lying to the FBI.
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Because if he can be prosecuted as soon as he leaves office, pardoning himself would protect him from that possibility, if the self-pardon were valid.
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But Flynn is not family, and the possible political and legal consequences of pardoning him must have outweighed whatever sense of loyalty Trump felt toward Flynn.
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The hotel stay is paid for by the National Turkey Federation, which supplies two turkeys each year for the presidential pardoning ceremony at the White House.
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Mueller's team told the court during Friday's allocution that Manafort had already begun providing them with information, which limits the practical impact of pardoning him now.
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The maneuver was viewed by some as an attempt to stop Trump from potentially pardoning Manafort, as the president cannot pardon an individual for state charges.
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Trump's attorneys rejected the idea of pardoning Cohen at the time, the Journal reported, but Giuliani left the door open to a pardon down the road.
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"Are you for or against pardoning those who committed crimes related to drug trafficking?" a robotic voice asks in one of the calls recorded by Reuters.
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" Added Ferguson, according to Sterling, "I have the pardoning power and we will stand by those men, and I want that bunch -- that gang cleaned up.
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Shortly after pardoning D'Souza, Trump mused to reporters about more possible pardons or sentence commutations for celebrity pals of his like Martha Stewart and Rod Blagojevich.
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"So I am taking this very righteous step, I believe, to correct a wrong that occurred in our history," the President said after pardoning Jack Johnson.
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In the Georgian court on Friday, Mr. Saakashvili was convicted of pardoning four police officers in 2008 without going through the presidential commission on pardons, Civil.
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The President insisted on Tuesday that he had not even thought about pardoning Stone -- an assertion that was being treated with skepticism in Washington Tuesday night.
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But Mr. Trump's outrage over Mr. Comey's revelations conflicted with his pardoning on Friday of I. Lewis Libby Jr., Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff.
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The president came under heavy fire for pardoning a party official whose appeal on abuse of power charges was still working its way through the courts.
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For many enlightenment thinkers, pardoning was too dependent on personal favoritism and the whim of the king and sidestepped a more systematic reform of criminal law.
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The U.S. Constitution does not specifically prohibit presidents from pardoning themselves before they're formally accused of wrongdoing (a person need not be charged to be pardoned).
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Seth MoultonSeth MoultonDeval Patrick beefs up campaign staff Lawmakers honor JFK on 22019th anniversary of his death Pardoning war crimes dishonors the military MORE (D-Mass.).
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Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg on Saturday tore into President Donald Trump for pardoning two Army officers who were accused or found guilty of war crimes.
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But they did not similarly provide that the president cannot thwart an ordinary criminal prosecution after he leaves office by pardoning himself before he leaves office.
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Giuliani told the Times that pardoning Manafort, who on Tuesday was found guilty on eight of 18 financial crimes, was not something the President was considering.
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But if he's pardoning other people, it may not be so simple even if it's more or less apparent that he's acting out of self-interest.
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FOWLER: And so I applaud her for it, and I think you know hopefully President Trump, if he&aposs in the pardoning mood will pardon this grandmother.
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Unlike Bush or President Bill Clinton, however, Obama is reducing sentences and pardoning individuals on a massive scale meant to instill fairness into the criminal justice system.
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" Subsequently, they conclude that pardoning him would "severely undermine America's intelligence institutions and core principles, and would subvert a range of procedures in place to protect whistleblowers.
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Legislation referred to the committee could impose new disclosure requirements on pardons and prevent any president from pardoning himself, a family member or a former campaign official.
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Perhaps more important, pardoning Arpaio would mark Trump's latest questionable use of presidential power, given he and the convict seem to share views on immigrants and deportation.
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Outside of Congress, the hope would be that firing Mueller—let alone pardoning the targets of his investigation—would essentially cost Trump control of the Justice Department.
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He told reporters aboard Air Force One Thursday that he called him for the first time Wednesday night to inform him that he would be pardoning him.
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"We are concerned that, by pardoning Mr. Libby, President Trump is implicitly promising to pardon Mr. Manafort and potentially others in exchange for their silence," they wrote.
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He told reporters last May he was considering pardoning Martha Stewart and commuting Blagojevich's sentence in a string of clemency announcements he unexpectedly made in June 2018.
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Although he has not yet shown interest in pardoning figures involved in the Russia investigation, he has not exactly been shy about encouraging them to keep quiet.
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In pardoning Libby, Trump can send a very clear message about how he feels about special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
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The president announced in a tweet Saturday afternoon that he is considering pardoning world heavyweight boxing champion, the late Jack Johnson, after allegedly speaking with Sylvester Stallone.
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" Yes, but: Rudy Giuliani, one of Trump's lawyers, said on NBC's "Meet the Press" Sunday, "The president of the United States pardoning himself would just be unthinkable.
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Why it matters: Despite a majority of voters being against a pardon for Manafort, Trump has reportedly seriously floated the idea of pardoning his former campaign manager.
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" Rudy Giuliani told the WashPost that Trump "recently asked his lawyers for their advice on the possibility of pardoning Paul Manafort and other aides accused of crimes.
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Thank you, Madiba, for pardoning my family, me, the whites of South Africa, the spoon thieves, today's political infants, all humanity for its iniquity and tribal stupidity.
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President Donald Trump tweeted on Sunday that he is "strongly considering" pardoning his former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI.
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Mr. Kuczynski categorically ruled out pardoning Alberto Fujimori when he was in a tight race for the presidency in 2016 against the former leader's daughter Keiko Fujimori.
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The first is that it would create an enormous political backlash — the president pardoning his close associates in an ongoing investigation would truly be a stunning development.
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Last year, Mr. Trump's former lawyer, John M. Dowd, raised the prospect of pardoning both Mr. Manafort and Michael T. Flynn, the president's former national security adviser.
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Right now it feels like a cross between a casting of 'The Apprentice' and a signal to the people who might testify against him, his pardoning strategy.
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The president has also looked into pardoning himself, members of his family, and Cabinet officials in relation to the Mueller probe, the Washington Post reported in 2017.
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Rod Blagojevich of Illinois, who was imprisoned on corruption charges, and pardoning Martha Stewart, who served a prison sentence for lying to investigators about a stock sale.
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The release of prisoners in itself was not unusual, with the Afghan government on occasions of religious festivals often pardoning dozens whose prison terms are near completion.
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AC (Virginia): Is there anything to stop President Trump from pardoning his friends and political associates if he feels they have been mistreated by the justice system?
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Pardoning a company that failed to punish employees who violated American trade controls against Iran and North Korea would set a difficult precedent for the United States.
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An alternative paradigm for pardoning has developed through the operations of the Office of the Pardon Attorney at the Department of Justice since the late 19th Century.
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Both the crisis of mass incarceration and the racially disparate administration of criminal law demand all the tools that can be mustered to correct them, including pardoning.
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But when he pressed Manafort on whether anyone at the White House had explicitly mentioned pardoning them, Manafort told him that no one had used that word.
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However, the New York investigation into Manafort could benefit Mueller, as presidents do not have pardoning power over states, and could compel Manafort to cooperate with investigators.
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Pardoning war criminals endangers the entire military community, and it sends a message to our troops that there are no repercussions for criminal behavior on the battlefield.
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A little over a year ago, President Obama went on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert and joked about pardoning himself for betting on the Super Bowl.
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In their amicus brief, the Democratic House members contended that Trump knowingly upended the authority of the court by pardoning someone who had intentionally disobeyed court orders.
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Older daughter and White House adviser Ivanka Trump was eyed along with her 6-year-old daughter, Arabella, as they approached the turkeys after the pardoning ceremony.
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Donald Trump announced he was posthumously pardoning the first black heavyweight champion Jack Johnson on Thursday ... and it seems a lot of credit goes to Sylvester Stallone!!
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In March, the New York Times reported that a lawyer for Trump discussed the possibility of pardoning former advisers Paul Manafort and Michael Flynn with their lawyers.
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On Thursday afternoon, Popular Force issued a statement saying that it saluted Mr. Fujimori's pardoning but that it "disagreed with the way" the pardon was carried out.
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Taking cues from Fox News, President Donald Trump is reportedly considering commemorating Memorial Day by pardoning several American troops accused of war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Before leaving to attend the Group of Seven summit in Canada, Trump told reporters he was considering pardoning some 3,000 people, including Ali, who died in 2016.
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" Giuliani added that Trump "has no intention of pardoning himself," but that the U.S. Constitution, which gives a president the authority to issue pardons, "doesn't say he can't.
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President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski cited Fujimori's health in pardoning him for convictions on human rights violations and graft charges less than halfway through a 25-year prison sentence.
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Meanwhile, President Trump on Friday dismissed any talk of pardoning Manafort or his longtime personal attorney, Michael Cohen, who is under investigation by federal prosecutors in New York.
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Pardoning Johnson is a way of delivering something Obama couldn't — or wouldn't — and of specifically highlighting that Trump's oft-criticized way of doing business has some real upsides.
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Previously, Kim Kardashian West met with the president to discuss the pardoning of Alice Johnson, who was serving a life sentence for a first-time nonviolent drug offense.
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" Asked about the American Civil Liberties Union's criticism of President Trump for considering pardoning him, Arpaio called the legal advocacy group "part of the abuse of the process.
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But the idea that we would even be in a place where the president would be pardoning himself, and maybe it goes to the nation&aposs highest court.
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The president has already bemoaned his former aide's treatment and called Manafort "brave" for not turning on him; Trump has also conspicuously declined to rule out pardoning him.
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As Barack Obama's second term comes to an end, an increasingly loud chorus of voices are calling for a dramatic final presidential act: the pardoning of Edward Snowden.
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Last week, the President pardoned conservative author and filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza and told reporters he was considering pardoning Martha Stewart and commuting the sentence of former Illinois Gov.
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Trump floated the idea of pardoning or commuting the sentences of the two former "Apprentice" series stars hours after he pardoned the conservative author and filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza.
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Wisenberg said that although he had never heard a president claim such self-pardoning powers, it was an "open question" since the courts had never ruled on it.
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"There's no way that [Trump pardoning himself] will happen and the reason it won't is because it'll become a political problem," Christie told ABC's "This Week" on Sunday.
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He's trying to strong-arm Trump into a pardon The President has already shown a willingness to use his pardoning power when it comes to high-profile people.
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Washington (CNN)The White House announced President Donald Trump will employ his pardoning powers next week -- on two turkeys, as is the tradition around this time of year.
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In such a high-stakes chess game, though, the President could respond by pardoning his son and appealing to the Republican Congress to fight off Democratic impeachment efforts.
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After pardoning conservative pundit Dinesh D'Souza last week, Trump told reporters on Air Force One that he was mulling similar actions for Blagojevich and lifestyle doyenne Martha Stewart.
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Pardoning certain individuals doesn't solve the systemic issues the players are protesting; it cannot bring back to life the black men who were unjustifiably shot by the police.
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The pardoning power is vested solely in the president, and the constitutional text only identifies a single qualification on that power (does not apply in cases of impeachment).
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Trump has intuited the force of the pardon as exception and, in pardoning Manafort, would be using it to declare himself sovereign and his associates above the law.
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By signaling that he might eventually consider pardoning him, Mr. Trump could alter the legal calculations of Mr. Manafort, who faces a second trial next month in Washington.
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Pardoning several accused and convicted war criminals at once, including some who have not yet gone to trial, has not been done in recent history, legal experts said.
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Finally, the plea raises the prospect that the president will renew his reported interest in pardoning current or future targets of the investigation or firing the special counsel.
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"Pardoning gay men convicted under homophobic laws makes it seem as though they're being forgiven for things they did wrong," writer and activist Owen Jones told VICE News.
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The current turmoil was sparked by the pardoning of Melvin Theuma, a suspected middleman in the murder who was granted immunity in return for information about the case.
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His enjoyment of pardoning is clear and it's led to a lot of supposition he could pardon people targeted by the Mueller probe who he thinks stay loyal.
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Although Mr. Trump has said nothing about pardoning Mr. Stone, he quickly criticized the verdict, suggesting that prosecutors and F.B.I. officials had themselves lied during the Russia investigation.
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"The pardoning of these disgraced figures should be treated as another national scandal by a lawless executive," said Democratic U.S. Representative Bill Pascrell, referring to Blagojevich and Milken.
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"A governor may have broad pardoning powers, but there must be further scrutiny by law enforcement when there is an appearance of impropriety or corruption," the legislators said.
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One of Trump's attorneys had raised the possibility of pardoning Manafort last year before the globetrotting former political consultant was indicted, The New York Times reported in March.
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By the same token, Mr. Trump would, at one moment, be scandalously overstepping the bounds of his rightful authority in firing Mr. Mueller or pardoning his closest associates.
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But nothing can stop President Trump from pardoning the next sheriff who takes a hard line on immigration enforcement, and runs afoul of racial-profiling prohibitions for it.
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Mitt RomneyWillard (Mitt) Mitt RomneyRepublicans raise concerns over Trump pardoning service members Mellman: The 'lane theory' is the wrong lane to be in Romney: 'No evidence' Ukraine meddled in 2016 election MORE (R-Utah), Susan CollinsSusan Margaret CollinsSenate confirms Trump pick labeled 'not qualified' by American Bar Association Republicans raise concerns over Trump pardoning service members Collins opposes Trump's district court pick MORE (R-Maine) and Lisa MurkowskiLisa Ann MurkowskiThe Hill's Morning Report - Dem impeachment report highlights phone records Republicans raise concerns over Trump pardoning service members Pressure grows on House GOP leaders to hold line ahead of impeachment trial MORE (R-Alaska) aren't giving any hints about which way they are leaning.
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John Cornyn, R-Texas, this week said President Trump should consider pardoning the former CIA director and Army general, amid his spree of commutations over the last several weeks.
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The prospect of pardoning Petraeus comes shortly after Trump pardoned conservative author and filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza, who pleaded guilty to making illegal campaign contributions in the 2012 Senate race.
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During his justification for pardoning Arpaio, Trump seemed to suggest his pardon was not scandalous compared to pardons and commutations by former presidents, including Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.
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Yet according to his current chief lawyer, Rudi Giuliani, the president was later dissuaded from considering pardoning any of his aides until after Mr Mueller had completed his investigation.
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That would put Mr Moon under pressure from conservatives and business lobbyists to return to the old practice of pardoning erring chaebol leaders for the good of the nation.
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News of Hegseth's behind-the-scenes involvement came after The New York Times reported over the weekend that Trump is considering pardoning several servicemen on or around Memorial Day.
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A fourth American released in exchange for the U.S. pardoning or dropping charges against seven Iranians opted to stay in Iran, and a fifth American was released separately. Rep.
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Pardoning Johnson would be a way of delivering something Obama couldn't — or wouldn't — and of specifically highlighting that Trump's oft-criticized way of doing business has some real upsides.
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Trump joked about his recent court defeats during the turkey pardoning ceremony, warning the two turkeys chosen, named Peas and Carrots, that a federal court could overturn his pardon.
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Although testifying that he advised the president against pardoning fugitive (and Clinton Foundation donor) Marc Rich, uncovered emails suggested he had backchannel conversations about the deal through his attorney.
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Our legislators return to their home states and districts, and our president and the White House typically celebrate with a quiet meal and the pardoning of a lucky turkey.
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His claims about what he knows are viewed by some within Trump's orbit as bargaining chips intended to nudge Trump toward pardoning Cohen if any wrongdoing comes to light.
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In other words, this is a gray area, but the Constitution's commitment to checks and balances and more generally to the rule of law strongly argue against self-pardoning.
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Muhammad Ali's ex-wife says Donald Trump is wasting his time if he's considering pardoning the legendary boxer ... telling TMZ Sports he should focus his energy on the LIVING!
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Reports in March surfaced suggesting that Costello had indicated to Cohen that the president was considering the possibility of pardoning him, but Costello vehemently denied this at the time.
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In ads for "The Imitation Game," his 19683 film about the persecuted gay mathematician, Alan Turing, Mr. Weinstein called for the pardoning of 49,000 people convicted for their sexuality.
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And though the president's advisers have previously dangled the possibility of pardons before targets of the special counsel's inquiry, pardoning Mr. Manafort could be politically risky for Mr. Trump.
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President Obama will, for the last time, take part on Wednesday in one of our country's odder Thanksgiving traditions: the annual pardoning of the turkeys at the White House.
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The New York Times has reported that Trump has discussed pardoning Manafort, but respondents in the Washington Post-ABC News poll firmly oppose such a move, 66% to 18%.
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Ari Fleischer, who was a press secretary under President George W. Bush, said that pardoning Mr. Arpaio did not "break new ground" in a decades-long debate over immigration.
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The president even personally raised the possibility of pardoning Roger Stone, who is set to be sentenced for lying to Congress on Thursday, to his advisers in recent weeks.
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In recent months, Democratic governors in Colorado, Virginia and New York have tried to help immigrants facing deportation by pardoning their old crimes, though the results have been mixed.
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Fox and Friends host Pete Hegseth regularly has the president&aposs ear on military issues and often pushes him to embrace more extreme measures like pardoning convicted war criminals.
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Pardoning and commutation decisions by governors are generally final and cannot be undone, said Rachel E. Barkow, a law professor at New York University who focuses on criminal justice.
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The risk of the president's penchant for pardoning war criminals is that the world's most disciplined and professional fighting force may soon be widely seen as an armed mob.
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Two turkeys escaped a Thanksgiving dinner fate on Tuesday when President Donald Trump continued the White House's annual tradition of "pardoning" them ahead of holiday feasts across the country.
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In recent days, the Washington Post reports, Trump has been asking advisers about the reach of his pardoning authority, as he seeks to understand the powers available to him.
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But according to reports by The Washington Post's Philip Rucker and Ellen Nakashima and The New York Times' Maggie Haberman, Trump's interest in pardoning Arpaio dates back several months.
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President Trump said Friday that he's thinking about pardoning the late boxing legend and civil rights activist Muhammad Ali -- although Ali&aposs attorney said that such a move is unnecessary.
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Now, we didn't just include two pictures of the pardoning for twice the nephew adorableness: There are actually 10 differences been the top original photo and the bottom pseudo copycat.
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That final turkey pardon After journeys to Europe and Peru, the president returned to Washington to preside over the traditional Thanksgiving Turkey Pardoning ceremony, which was usually full of fun.
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Obama, who leaves office in January, has followed the annual tradition of "pardoning" a turkey every year before the Thanksgiving Day holiday, which many Americans celebrate with a turkey dinner.
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Cohen's amendments would dismantle the Electoral College (which Trump won to earn the presidency, despite losing the popular vote) and prohibit presidents from pardoning themselves, family members and staff members.
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When asked whether Congress should press Suu Kyi to voice support for pardoning two Reuters journalists convicted of violating an official secrets law, McConnell did not rule out the possibility.
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" 5 things to know about 'Making a Murderer' It goes on to lay out what presidential pardoning power entails and notes that "the President cannot pardon a state criminal offense.
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"As a hurricane prepares to devastate Texas, Donald Trump is more concerned with kicking people out of the military and pardoning a racist sheriff who broke the law," Massachusetts Sen.
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Trump stoked the speculation himself when earlier this month he told Fox News he was considering pardoning the controversial former Maricopa County sheriff, whom a federal judge found in contempt.
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The report comes after Trump pardoned conservative commentator Dinesh D'Souza, and said he was considering pardoning businesswoman and TV personality Martha Stewart and commuting the sentence for former Illinois Gov.
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MSNBC's Eugene Robinson called Joe Arpaio "viciously racist" and said President Trump "is sending a real message to the country" in pardoning the controversial former sheriff of Maricopa County, Ariz.
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Why not invite hungry children and their families to the White House for a meal just after the non-pardoning and donate a second turkey to a D.C. soup kitchen?
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In honor of Obama's final turkey pardoning — which was chock full of puns, as per usual — we've rounded up all eight years of him executing this weird and hallowed tradition.
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The former head of President Donald Trump's legal team discussed the idea of pardoning two of the president's former top advisors with their lawyers, The New York Times reported Wednesday.
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Last month, Kuczynski narrowly survived an impeachment bid in the wake of a graft scandal and triggered protests and political resignations days later by pardoning former authoritarian president Alberto Fujimori.
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Answering questions in public for the first time since his nomination, the judge also declined to say whether Mr. Trump could escape legal jeopardy by pardoning himself or his associates.
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State charges against the company or its executives could be significant because Mr. Trump has talked about pardoning some of his current or former aides who have faced federal charges.
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But, as several commentators have already pointed out, offering a criminal suspect or defendant a pardon in exchange for his silence is not the same thing as simply pardoning someone.
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But without pardoning McGregor, remember that the goon he plays on TV perpetrated that over-the-line buffoonery in a played-out format where he had to fill dead air.
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However, President Trump made good on his word from his rally in Phoenix earlier in the week where he hinted at pardoning Arpaio's crimes before the sentencing even took place.
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Charles M. Blow Opinion Columnist Last week Donald Trump proposed pardoning Muhammad Ali, even though Ali's conviction for refusing to be drafted into the Vietnam War had been already overturned.
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Trump made the announcement to reporters Tuesday, along with the news that he was commuting the sentence of former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich and pardoning ex-NYPD commissioner Bernard Kerik.
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Trump not only hasn't personally involved himself in the details of coronavirus response (apparently too busy pardoning former Celebrity Apprentice guests), he also hasn't designated anyone to be in charge.
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It is not clear if Dowd spoke with the President about the prospect of pardoning Flynn and Manafort prior to discussing the possibility with their lawyers, according to the Times.
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Trump has at times flirted with the idea of pardoning aides entangled in the Mueller probe but has insisted to date that he's given no serious consideration of them yet.
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Trump last Friday restored Gallagher's rank and pay, allowing him to retire on a full pension, while pardoning two Army officers who were separately accused of war crimes in Afghanistan.
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"Prior to many of these interviews, the President pardoned the Arizona sheriff," Quigley said, referring to Trump's August 2017 pardoning of Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was convicted of criminal contempt.
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Before Tuesday's pardoning, the two birds enjoyed a luxurious stay at the Willard InterContinental Hotel in Washington, where they had a comfortable visit, according to hotel general manager Markus Platzer.
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Thom TillisThomas (Thom) Roland TillisNC rep explores Tillis primary challenge Republicans raise concerns over Trump pardoning service members Tillis challenger dropping GOP primary bid in North Carolina MORE (R-N.C.).
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If the president tempted fate by pardoning himself, I suspect that he would damage himself politically for nothing, because the pardon wouldn't be worth the paper it was printed on.
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Thom TillisThomas (Thom) Roland TillisNC rep explores Tillis primary challenge Republicans raise concerns over Trump pardoning service members Tillis challenger dropping GOP primary bid in North Carolina MORE (R-N.
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Lauren Hitt, a spokeswoman for Nixon, told Newsday that while Cuomo's pardoning was good, Nixon would do more to "end the deportation pipeline" by allowing undocumented immigrants to obtain driver's licenses.
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Yet the rule-of-law principle that one cannot be the prosecutor or judge in one's own case suggests that the president's pardoning power is limited to people other than himself.
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But never, ever, ever has this president said, to the best of my knowledge, he&aposs even thinking about pardoning for Mike Flynn or Paul Manafort or anybody else with him.
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In May, the rapper's wife, Kim Kardashian West, met with Trump to discuss the pardoning of Alice Johnson, who was serving a life sentence for a first-time nonviolent drug offense.
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It was expected that Trump would announce he is pardoning the so-called "America's toughest sheriff" since he first floated the idea in an interview with Fox News earlier this month.
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That would entail a new law to make the practice, known as "caixa dois," a crime but which would prevent retroactive punishment, effectively pardoning anyone guilty of the practice to date.
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Freed by his decision not to seek re-election, Paul Ryan, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, did muster the courage to say he was not for presidential self-pardoning.
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The comments from Sanders, delivered at the first official White House press briefing in six weeks, appear to signal a development in the president's thinking on the issue of pardoning Manafort.
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He did not rule out pardoning Flynn as recently as this month, but his lawyers have publicly insisted there's nothing damaging Flynn could share — because the president didn't do anything wrong.
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Trump landed in the Sunshine State after the turkey pardoning and was joined by First Lady Melania Trump and their 12-year-old son, Barron, as they disembarked Air Force One.
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In his final turkey-pardoning ceremony in 2016 (with his two young nephews standing in for teenaged Sasha and Malia), Obama promised a "corny-copia of dad jokes," and he delivered.
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President Obama traditionally saves his barrage of dad jokes for the annual turkey pardoning, but with eight days until he officially leaves office, had to get one last good one in.
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He began last August by pardoning Joe Arpaio, the former Arizona sheriff who had been convicted of contempt of court for ignoring a judge's order to stop racially profiling Hispanic motorists.
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Trump has not yet suggested pardoning any of the individuals indicted in Mueller's probe, but CNN reports some of the pardons reflect instances where he believes the Justice Department has overreached.
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At the behest of his new celebrity pal Kim Kardashian, the president is leaning towards pardoning Alice Marie Johnson, who is serving a life-sentence for drug possession and money laundering.
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Observers worried about Trump pardoning those, such as Paul Manafort and Roger Stone, who could implicate him should recall that this, too, was a precedent set by George H. W. Bush.
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He also ignored questions about whether he would work to short-circuit the Russia investigation, either by moving to dismiss Mueller or by pardoning his associates caught up in Mueller's probe.
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Obama, who leaves office in January, has followed the annual tradition of "pardoning" a turkey every year ahead of the Thanksgiving Day holiday, which many Americans celebrate with a turkey dinner.
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Giuliani says Trump won't pardon himself Trump tweeted on Monday morning that his pardon power extended even to pardoning himself, but asserted that in any case he would not need to.
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In a controversial move, the president pardoned conservative commentator Dinesh D'Souza on Thursday, and has floated the idea of pardoning celebrity Martha Stewart and commuting the sentence of former Illinois Gov.
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Of late, he appears to be trying to normalize pardons along with discrediting Mueller's probe politically — both of which could help him get away with pardoning his cronies down the road.
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One can't help but wonder, however, whether the President will honor the tempered verdict or thump the proverbial chest of his pardoning power and undermine his own executive branch's prosecutorial power.
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In announcing the pardon, the White House took the unusual step of releasing the names of 33 people who it said had provided "widespread and longstanding support" for pardoning Mr. Milken.
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Trump has yet to rule out pardoning Stone, 67, for his seven felonies, but indicated Thursday that he's unlikely to pardon Stone before a decision is made about a new trial.
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Trump stoked speculation about the move during a recent interview with Fox News, saying he was "seriously considering" pardoning Arpaio, a longtime supporter whose hardline immigration policies align with his own.
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But with the stroke of a pen, and citing vast bipartisan congressional and legal support, Trump commuted the sentence without pardoning Rubashkin, making him a free man after eight years served.
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The President of the United States should say so The rally also comes after the president said he is "seriously considering" pardoning the controversial former sheriff of Maricopa Country, Joe Arpaio.
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On top of that, Mr Trump's enthusiasm for pardoning convicted war criminals and the broader weaponisation of veterans by the president and his opponents risks bringing about a loss of confidence.
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani have talked about the potential political repercussions of pardoning former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, The New York Times reported Wednesday.
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We got Ted outside the U.S. Capitol Wednesday, and he called on the President to become more active in pardoning prisoners who are getting a raw deal from draconian drug sentences.
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Trump recently made headlines by pardoning conservative author and filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza and commuting the prison sentence of Alice Johnson, who had been serving a life sentence for a nonviolent drug conviction.
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Since his appointment in April, Abiy has presided over a raft of reforms that have turned the region's politics on its head, including the pardoning of dissidents long outlawed by the government.
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In 2014, a congressional staffer resigned after saying on Facebook that Malia and Sasha, then 16 and 13, dressed like "they deserved a spot at the bar" at the annual turkey pardoning.
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He announced Thursday via his Twitter account that he is pardoning conservative author and filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza for a felony violation of federal campaign finance law – a charge D'Souza pleaded guilty to.
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That outrageous move he has since suggested was a conscious one—jumping on Hurricane Harvey coverage to highlight his pardoning of a crooked sheriff—was low down and repugnant, even for him.
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Teresa Giudice is open to talking to President Donald Trump about possibly pardoning her husband Joe Giudice to prevent his court-ordered deportation — she's just waiting for Trump to call her first.
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LIMA (Reuters) - Thousands of Peruvians marched on Thursday to protest the president's recent pardoning of former authoritarian leader Alberto Fujimori, calling for new general elections as a graft scandal ensnares established politicians.
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A former Trump campaign aide who is still close to the administration also opposed the idea of pardoning Arpaio, preferring instead that Trump commute Arpaio's forthcoming sentence rather than forgive his crime.
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Sessions' responses were equally aloof earlier in the hearing when Senator Mark Warner, the panel's ranking Democrat, asked whether he had knowledge of any discussions at DOJ about potentially pardoning Trump associates.
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The context: It was revealed last week that Trump was considering pardoning military personnel found to have violated the Uniform Code of Military over Memorial Day weekend, per the New York Times.
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President Obama has not said anything over the past three years to suggest he's interested in pardoning Snowden, and it would be a significant break from his national security policy thus far.
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"President Trump would be literally pardoning Joe Arpaio's flagrant violation of federal court orders that prohibited the illegal detention of Latinos," Cecillia Wang, the group's deputy legal director, said in a statement.
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But by pardoning a vehement pro-Trump agitator, the President made a clear statement that if other supporters who are wildly popular with his base stick with him, he will protect them.
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A president pardoning herself would be engaging in a massive conflict of interest that the public would never accept, just as it didn't accept Nixon's firing of the special prosecutor Archibald Cox.
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Accordingly, the smart move would be to delay pardoning a loyal Cohen, at least until after his trial and conviction when the Mueller grand juries have been disbanded and their investigations concluded.
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Trump praised Manafort last month for not cooperating with federal prosecutors and floated the prospect of pardoning him after the investigation wraps up—with the implicit condition that he not assist it.
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Unlike other kinds of corruption, which can be countermanded with new laws, subpoenas, and other legislative tools, there is no direct way for Congress to stop Trump from pardoning anyone and everyone.
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After all, if Trump is willing to pardon a man he does not even know, then pardoning his own former aides willing to protect him from Mueller's investigation would seem entirely possible.
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On Friday, ahead of the G7 summit in Canada, Trump told reporters that he's considering pardoning thousands of people, signaling that the next on his list may be deceased boxer Muhammad Ali.
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While Schmitt's writings focus less prominently on pardoning, the power to pardon, in Article 49 of the Weimer Constitution, was structurally similar to the power to declare an emergency under Article 48.
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They claim that the Constitution prohibits the president from pardoning for the purpose of self-protection, for the same reason it forbids using the pardon power for the purpose of financial gain.
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"The offer of a pardon would precede the act of pardoning and thus be within Congress's power to regulate even if the pardon itself is not," Mr. Mueller wrote in his report.
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Mr. Trump, on Twitter, said he was "strongly considering" pardoning his former national security adviser, Michael J. Flynn, who pleaded guilty to lying to the F.B.I. about his dealings with Russia's ambassador.
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Besides, Clinton committed a host of other violations like Trump, such as pardoning his half brother and a Democratic donor who was not only a fugitive but entirely unrepentant over his crimes.
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Finally, Trump made light of the impeachment push on Tuesday during the annual pardoning of turkeys in the White House Rose Garden shortly before he departed for Florida for the long weekend.
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The Navy reduced Gallagher in rank, but last Friday, Trump restored him to his previous rank of chief, while also pardoning two Army officers accused or found guilty of committing war crimes.
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That included pardoning Joe Arpaio, the former Arizona sheriff who built a national reputation for his harsh campaign against undocumented immigrants, and issuing a formal ban on transgender people joining the military.
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As a massive hurricane is hurtling toward the southern United States, the White House is focused not on saving lives, but on pardoning a man who committed unlawful acts of racial discrimination.
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Trump's pardoning of former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona last week signaled to many that the president is willing to use pardons, and could use them in the Russia investigation.
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Americans consume about 46 million turkeys each Thanksgiving, according to the National Turkey Federation (the organization is also responsible for raising the birds for the White House's tradition of pardoning a turkey).
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They have also been seen at the White House, where in November they sat next to Ivanka Trump in the front row to witness Trump's first White House Thanksgiving turkey pardoning ceremony.
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Beto O'Rourke called Tuesday for a constitutional amendment prohibiting a president from pardoning anyone tied to an investigation involving the president or his family members, a direct rebuke of President Donald Trump.
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The background for this weekend's Trump-Mueller discussions is that on Thursday, Trump pardoned conservative commentator Dinesh D'Souza for campaign finance law violations, and mused about pardoning other celebrity pals of his.
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Yet the rule-of-law principle that one cannot be the prosecutor or judge in one&aposs own case suggests that the president&aposs pardoning power is limited to people other than himself.
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Kim Kardashian met with Donald Trump in the Oval Office to talk about pardoning the Alice Marie Johnson who had served 20 years in prison for crimes connected to a local drug ring.
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Wow. GOODSTEIN: I&aposm saying if you look at all the people he pardoned and the people he talked about pardoning today, every single one of those crimes -- INGRAHAM: How about Mark Rich?
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And by commuting sentences rather than pardoning people, the president has released ex-prisoners into a world where their criminal records can still stop them from getting jobs, public housing, or the vote.
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And if you think about Bill Clinton pardoning Marc Rich after his wife gave him millions of dollars for whatever, maybe the Foundation -- the library, and he does it on his way out.
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Thousands of people in Peru protested against the pardoning of Alberto Fujimori, a former president who had served less than half of a 19573-year jail sentence for corruption and human-rights abuses.
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In a 1974 case, Mr Turley notes, the Supreme Court declared that "the pardoning power is an enumerated power of the constitution" whose "limitations, if any, must be found in the constitution itself".
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Historians differ on whether Ford's pardoning of his predecessor, President Nixon, was a mistake, but it's a common view that it tarnished Ford's legacy and damaged any chance he had for another term.
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Throwing out ideas for who he could pardon next, Trump at first teased reporters, saying he was thinking about pardoning somebody that people knew about and who was not popular at one time.
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"This is flabbergasting," Conway said in March 2018, in response to a report that Trump discussed pardoning former national security adviser Michael Flynn and former campaign chairman Paul Manafort in the Russia probe.
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Steve Cohen has proposed two constitutional amendments, one that would abolish the Electoral College and another that would prohibit presidents from pardoning themselves, their families, members of their administration or their campaign staffs.
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The legislation "acknowledges the wrongfulness and discriminatory effect of past convictions for certain historical sexual offences" by pardoning people convicted of those offences and providing a legal process for convictions to be disregarded.
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President Trump said he would consider pardoning Martha Stewart's insider trading conviction and commuting the political corruption sentence of ex-Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich during a session with reporters on Air Force One.
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It doesn't work for state crimes, it would prevent the pardoned people from pleading the Fifth Amendment in some instances, and Mueller could deem the pardoning itself obstruction of justice on Trump's part.
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Since taking office in April, he has tried to open Ethiopia up to the outside world, after decades of security-obsessed isolation, by pardoning dissidents and partly privatizing key firms among other changes.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump said on Friday that he is considering pardoning Muhammad Ali, a boxing legend who died two years ago and was convicted of refusing to be drafted during the Vietnam War.
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On Wednesday, President Donald Trump followed through on a campaign promise he made to Conrad Black, a former media mogul and business partner, by pardoning him for fraud and obstruction of justice convictions.
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However, with Trump and his research on what he had called his "complete power to pardon," there seems to be a sudden epiphany of clarity that the Constitution bars Trump from pardoning himself.
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Under our system of justice President Trump has all the legal authority in the world to review this case, in terms of commuting the sentence or pardoning Mr. Stone for the underlying offense.
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Depending on how he views his campaign prospects, Trump could hold off on pardoning Stone until after the election this fall, at which point he could pay no electoral price for such action.
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In an interview for this obituary in 2007, he denied published reports that he had drafted a statement for Ford to read in pardoning Nixon but that the statement had not been used.
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Would he object to Mr. Trump pardoning his former national security adviser Michael Flynn or Paul Manafort, whom Mr. Mueller has accused of giving polling data to an associate connected to Russian intelligence?
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In a newspaper editorial, Jardim wrote that the decree was aimed at pardoning criminals such as the more than 70,000 people jailed for theft and not the 50 or so imprisoned for corruption.
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What's more, as multiple law professors told my colleague Sean Illing, pardoning Manafort might deprive him of his Fifth Amendment right not to testify when subpoenaed, potentially putting Trump in more legal jeopardy.
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Patrick LeahyPatrick Joseph LeahyRepublicans raise concerns over Trump pardoning service members Lawmakers bypass embattled Mulvaney in spending talks Warren bill would revoke Medals of Honor for Wounded Knee massacre MORE (D-Vt.) and Sheldon WhitehouseSheldon WhitehouseRepublicans raise concerns over Trump pardoning service members Overnight Energy: Pelosi vows to push for Paris climate goals | Senate confirms Brouillette to succeed Perry at Energy | EPA under attack from all sides over ethanol rule Pelosi: Congress has 'iron-clad' commitment to climate crisis MORE (D-R.
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Abiy, who took over as premier in April last year, has presided over major political and economic changes that have included the pardoning of exiled rebel groups and reconciliation with longtime neighboring foe Eritrea.
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When there is no truth, what are we pardoning if we don&apost even have the criminals in jail, if we don&apost even know what happened ... or where they (the victims) are buried.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday declined to say whether he is considering pardoning longtime adviser Roger Stone, who was found guilty last year of lying to Congress, obstruction and witness tampering.
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While pardoning Fujimori might help Kuczynski forge better ties with Congress, where Fujimori's supporters hold a majority of seats, it would anger the leftist groups that helped elect him and could define his legacy.
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Pardoning the Hammonds suggests not only that this particular case was mistreated, but that fears of government overreach are warranted — and that Trump will continue to act in a way that acknowledges those fears.
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Kushner was responsible for steering Kim Kardashian West into a well-publicized Oval Office meeting to discuss pardoning Alice Marie Johnson, knowing that the celebrity power would grab Trump's attention despite his advisors' disapproval.
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That dynamic was clearly at play when Trump caused a storm last year by pardoning Arpaio after he was convicted of criminal contempt in a case relating to his hardline policies towards undocumented immigrants.
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Trump said Friday that he was considering pardoning the late boxing champion Muhammad Ali, although Ali's conviction was overturned by the Supreme Court in 1971 and President Carter pardoned all draft evaders in 1977.
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"And again, we're sitting in Newark, where kids are going to prison for things that two of the last three presidents admitted to doing, and nobody's pardoning them," Booker continued, referring to smoking marijuana.
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"And again, we're sitting in Newark where kids are going to prison for things that two of the last three presidents admitted to doing and nobody's pardoning them," he said, referring to smoking marijuana.
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After a federal jury convicted former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort in August, Trump appeared to float the possibility of pardoning Manafort if he refused to cooperate with investigators, which may amount to bribery.
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"I believe that at some point, my Republican colleagues have to join in a bipartisan effort to save our democracy," Senator Blumenthal says about the possibility of President Trump pardoning Paul Manafort https://t.
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It didn't matter if he was pardoning Joe Arpaio, Scooter Libby, or the long-dead Jack Johnson: Trump was letting everyone know that he would take care of his friends—if they didn't flip.
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"Pardoning the Hammonds sends a dangerous message to America's park rangers, wildland firefighters, law enforcement officers and public lands managers," Jennifer Rokala, executive director of the Center for Western Priorities, said in a statement.
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The Washington Post, citing people familiar with the effort, reported late Thursday that Trump's legal team is seeking to limit or undercut the investigation by targeting Mueller's team and is exploring Trump's pardoning authority.
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The first half of this week's news cycle was dominated by Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman who's accused of violating his plea deal — but whom President Trump said he would consider pardoning.
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At least one of the presidents since the White House turkey pardoning tradition officially began in 1989 must have disliked the dish, but none dared give such a reason for sparing the bird's life.
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As Mr. Trump was delivering the kind of statement his critics had demanded over the weekend, Fox News reported that the president was considering pardoning Joe Arpaio, the former sheriff of Maricopa County, Ariz.
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BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romania's president urged the government on Friday to scrap draft decrees pardoning thousands of prisoners and decriminalizing some graft offences, joining other critics who accuse it of undermining an anti-corruption drive.
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"On the day the president wrongly attacks Comey for being a 'leaker and liar' he considers pardoning a convicted leaker and liar, Scooter Libby," Representative Adam B. Schiff, Democrat of California, wrote on Twitter.
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Jerry Brown, California Jerry Brown, the Democratic former governor of California, drew President Trump's ire last year by pardoning five immigrants who had been convicted of various crimes and were set to be deported.
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And in his paranoid, aggrieved isolation, he's even thinking about nixing Steve Bannon, nemesis of the Mooch, and mulling firing the one who could get him fired, Mueller, and pardoning himself for possible charges.
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During the pardoning ceremony, Trump couldn't resist joking about the impeachment inquiry, telling the crowd in the Rose Garden that the turkeys "have already received subpoenas to appear in Adam Schiff's basement" next week.
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"I passed a comprehensive criminal justice reform bill with other senators on both sides of the aisle," Booker said in response to a question about communing or pardoning people charged for federal marijuana offenses.
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In the clip above from Tuesday night's The Late Show, Stephen Colbert kicked things off by discussing Bread and Butter — the two turkeys up for pardoning as part of the annual pre-Thanksgiving tradition.
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"The tragedy of pardoning Lorance isn't that he will be released from prison — I've found room for compassion there," said Patrick Swanson, a former Army captain who was Lieutenant Lorance's company commander in Afghanistan.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump has consulted his legal advisers about the possibility of pre-emptively pardoning his associates — and possibly even himself — to undermine the Justice Department's Russia investigation, The Washington Post reported Thursday night.
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Instead, the most controversial uses of the pardon power have generally come from presidents pardoning crimes committed by their political allies under their predecessors' administrations, or from lame-duck presidents already headed out the door.
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The details: Fox News anchor Sean Hannity asked Trump during their interview if he'd consider pardoning former national security adviser Michael Flynn or ex-Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos, now the Mueller probe had ended.
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Issues. You may have heard of them, the things that politicians are elected to turn into legislative form and enact, in between welcoming sports teams to the White House and pardoning the turkey at Thanksgiving.
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" As to Hoffa's conditional commutation specifically, Pratt concluded that "the condition in question was within the President's pardoning power and that under the circumstances was reasonable and not violative of any of [Hoffa's] constitutional rights.
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Pardoning Snowden would be a bulwark against the rapid erosion of the currency of truth in our democracy, and perhaps be the most important legacy Obama could leave us in his final days in office.
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Terry McAuliffe slammed President Donald Trump on Sunday for pardoning controversial former Maricopa County sheriff Joe Arpaio, calling it a "bad decision" and saying its timing after the violence in Charlottesville made it even worse.
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President Donald Trump was asked Friday if he had considered pardoning his former campaign chief Manafort or his personal lawyer Michael Cohen, who is the target of a federal criminal probe in New York City.
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Over the next several months, she worked with a team of lawyers to build the case for pardoning Johnson and engaged in talks with Trump's son-in-law and senior White House adviser Jared Kushner.
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And President Trump should hope every day for the rest of his term that one of his successors does not choose to prosecute him for pardoning Paul Manafort or for anything else that he does.
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The onus, Ms. Hameed said, would be on judges to decide whether women were being coerced into pardoning their families, and judges could annul any attempts at forced mediation, and indict and punish those involved.
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Otherwise, the pardon power, itself a legal tool, could register a shocking blow to the rule of law: It would permit presidents to engage in criminal conduct with the intention of pardoning their co-conspirators.
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Trump, after all, has refused to rule out pardoning Manafort and praised him even after his conviction, as he did in this August tweet: I feel very badly for Paul Manafort and his wonderful family.
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He established his political identity through birtherism, he won the Republican nomination on the Muslim ban, he campaigned on the Mexican wall, he governed by being neutral on Charlottesville and pardoning the racialist Joe Arpaio.
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But pardoning a company that allegedly violated American trade controls on Iran and North Korea could also set a difficult precedent ahead of Mr. Trump's meeting next month with North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussed the possibility of Russia pardoning U.S.-Israeli national Naama Issachar when he spoke by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said.
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Trump said earlier this month that he was considering pardoning Joe Arpaio, the former Arizona sheriff found guilty of criminal contempt for violating the terms of a 2011 court order in a racial profiling case.
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A May 2019 poll from the organization Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America found that roughly 40 percent of U.S. military service members and veterans supported Trump pardoning war criminals — numbers that likely hold today.
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And, unlike the pardon of Arpaio, which is a despicable blow to the rule of law, pardoning anyone who might have been a co-conspirator in misconduct involving Trump himself would much more plausibly be impeachable.
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Representatives for the White House did not immediately response to a request for comment on whether Trump would consider pardoning Cohen, but Trump himself dismissed his former longtime attorney in a post on Twitter on Wednesday.
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Pardoning Arpaio should be a reminder that the president of the United States is openly endorsing the profiling people of color and a right-wing, anti-immigrant agenda that no other commander-in-chief has followed.
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Ivanka Trump appeared to be in high spirits at the annual White House turkey pardoning on Tuesday, despite facing continued fallout over the news that she allegedly used a personal email address to discuss government business.
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But if Trump took more drastic action to torpedo the investigation—like firing Mueller or pardoning Manafort, moves that he's obviously considered—the GOP would likely feel a lot more pressure to act to protect it.
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By commuting Manning's sentence, but not pardoning her, he reaffirmed the position of the U.S. government that those entrusted with the privilege of access to classified information should be held accountable for breaking that sacred trust.
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If he were to consider the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), one of the most comprehensive statutes in the entire U.S. Code, it would mean mass pardoning of multiple legal violations just in that statute alone.
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By flouting norms, like bypassing the Office of the Pardon Attorney, and pardoning controversial public figures who automatically trigger public outrage, Trump has created a pattern in which pushback against his pardons are to be expected.
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Just a few hours after that tweet, Trump told reporters that he is considering commuting the sentence of the Former Democratic Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, as well as pardoning businesswoman and best-selling author Martha Stewart.
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Before the actual pardoning, Trump stood for several minutes at the podium, revving up a few turkey-inspired quips, including a reference to the two turkeys pardoned last year by President Barack Obama, Tater and Tot.
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From playing dominoes in a Harlem senior citizen center to her interview on The Breakfast Club entertaining the idea of pardoning rappers Max B and Bobby Shmurda, and even popping-up on BET's Black Girls Rock!
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After losing three ministers to congressional pressure, Kuczynski said last month that it was time for him to consider pardoning Fujimori's father, imprisoned former President Alberto Fujimori - widely seen as a bid to appease Popular Force.
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She was there to make the case for pardoning Alice Johnson, a 63-year-old woman who had been serving a life sentence in prison since 1996 for her involvement in a conspiracy to sell cocaine.
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But South Korea's new liberal president, Moon Jae-in, who won a May election, has pledged to rein in the chaebols, empower minority shareholders and end the practice of pardoning tycoons convicted of white-collar crime.
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Washington (CNN)A former Detroit mayor who was convicted in a federal corruption case is asking President Donald Trump -- who recently announced he is considering pardoning thousands of people -- to cut short his 28-year sentence.
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A lawyer for President Trump broached the idea of pardoning two of his former top advisers, Michael Flynn, above, and Paul Manafort, with their lawyers last year, according to three people with knowledge of the talks.
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Although his own record on civil rights has come under question, often harshly, Mr. Trump, flanked by boxing champions and Sylvester Stallone, the actor who brought the case to his attention, signed an order pardoning Johnson.
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That included pardoning Joe Arpaio, above with Mr. Trump, the former Arizona sheriff who built a national reputation for his harsh campaign against undocumented immigrants, and issuing a formal ban on transgender people joining the military.
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President Trump's former ethics chief on Monday blasted him for considering pardoning controversial Sheriff Joe Arpaio, saying such an action would tell white supremacists he's on their side and undercut his claim to be against racism.
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"As many of you know, I've been very active in overturning a number of executive actions by my predecessor," Trump said as he participated in his first turkey pardoning ceremony on Tuesday in the Rose Garden.
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In an effort to ease the transition to democracy after Franco's death, Spain passed an amnesty law pardoning political crimes committed during the conflict and the dictatorship in an accord known as the "Pact of Forgetting".
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Trump has the right to shut down the prosecution entirely by pardoning Stone or commuting any prison sentence, but was cagey on that topic again Tuesday when a reporter asked if clemency is in the offing.
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"He goes out, he practices his jokes, he works on his material," Noah told Seth Meyers on Wednesday's Late Night, pointing to Trump floating the idea of pardoning Joe Arpaio to his rally crowd in Phoenix.
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Multiple lawmakers called on Kavanaugh to explain the views espoused in this Law Review write-up as well as his perspective on whether a president is able to engage in actions like pardoning him- or herself.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said he would consider pardoning his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who was convicted on Tuesday of bank and tax fraud, according to a Fox News reporter who interviewed Trump.
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This has created an impression that Mr Trump is using his pardoning power to encourage old friends caught up in Robert Mueller's investigation into his campaign team's dubious activities to stay loyal—and enemies to back off.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's King Maha Vajiralongkorn conducted final rituals on Friday in preparation for three days of ceremonies for his elaborate coronation, which will also be marked by the pardoning and release from jail of some prisoners.
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"Regarding the Arpaio pardon, I would have preferred that the President honor the judicial process and let it take its course," Flake tweeted Friday night, in an acknowledgment of the political fallout of Trump's pardoning of Arpaio.
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Critics have raised the question of whether Trump is sending a signal to his former allies and aides who are facing criminal charges in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation with his robust use of his pardoning power.
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By pardoning Arpaio, the President thumbed his nose at the investigative and judicial process -- and made it clear that crimes that involve thwarting investigators, prosecutors and judges may be precisely those that are most worthy of forgiveness.
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Still, suppose for example, a president asks his attorney general for advice on the "political" consequences of invading another nation, or whether the president likely will be asked to testify before Congress about pardoning a political crony.
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What might have further thrilled Trump about pardoning Libby is that he did it just days before James Comey's book was released -- the former FBI director was the man who authorized the special counsel in that case.
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Consider just the last 30 days of Kushner-led agenda items: bipartisan prison reform, the long-awaited pardoning of Alice Johnson, moving the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, and another coming visit to the Middle East.
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Moreover, I think Congress could certainly regard an "abuse" of the pardoning power as an impeachable offense in and of itself (even if we were to think that such a pardon should be regarded as legally valid).
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Presidents have been pardoning turkeys as far back as Abraham Lincoln&aposs administration, and it&aposs traditionally a family affair, with young relatives of the sitting president taking part and the president typically giving a humorous speech.
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Pressure from military leaders behind the scenes persuaded the president to hold off, Navy officials said, but Mr. Trump told reporters he was still open to pardoning "two or three" men accused or convicted of war crimes.
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THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release May 24, 2018 REMARKS BY PRESIDENT TRUMP AT PARDONING OF JOHN ARTHUR "JACK" JOHNSON Oval Office 12:55 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much.
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And it is rigged in favor of the wealthy and powerful, with white-collar criminal enforcement declining, agencies like the IRS being defunded and defanged, and now Trump pardoning random criminals who get to him through Fox.
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On Saturday, Trump said he is considering posthumously pardoning Johnson, who was convicted in 1913 under the Mann Act for taking his white girlfriend across state lines for "immoral" purposes -- per the advice of actor Sylvester Stallone.
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While it's impossible to predict what Trump will do, nearly all the experts I spoke to agree on one thing: If Trump does use his pardoning powers to thwart the Russia investigation, it's very likely to backfire.
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Though the National Turkey Federation began presenting presidents with a turkey back in 1947, when Harry S. Truman was gifted with one of the gigantic birds, the actual tradition of "pardoning" dates back to the late '80s.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpFive environmental fights to watch in 2020 Lawmakers close to finalizing federal strategy to defend against cyberattacks The 7 big Supreme Court cases to watch in 2020 MORE said Tuesday he hadn't thought about pardoning Roger StoneRoger Jason Stone2019 in Photos: 35 pictures in politics Trump says he hasn't thought about pardoning Roger Stone The Hill's 12:85033 Report — Presented by UANI — House panel debates terms for impeachment vote MORE, but described his former associate as a "good person" and said he had been treated very unfairly.
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Aboard Air Force One on Thursday, Trump told reporters that he's considering pardoning Stewart, who served time in federal prison following her conviction in 2004 of obstructing justice and lying to investigators about a conspicuously-timed stock sale.
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How dare John Kelly not let President Trump learn the truth about Planet X.Thanks for Sheriff Joe ArpaioYesterday, Alex Jones had Joe Arpaio on his show to talk about the prospect of President Trump pardoning the former Sheriff.
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The announcement of Grammer&aposs involvement in the show comes on the heels of President Trump invoking his pardoning power in a spree of exonerations for Dinesh D'Souza , as well as a potential pardons for former Illinois Gov.
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The chief pardon attorney was so resistant to pardoning federal prisoners that in at least one case he withheld relevant evidence that would have made a pardon applicant look better when presenting the application to Obama for review.
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"The issue of pardoning someone is an individual decision that's made on a case-by-case basis, and so there's no legal framework or regulatory framework that allows for a pardon of a group en masse," Lynch said.
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Harry, Montreal: If Trump fears being prosecuted after he leaves office, what prevents him on his last day in office from pardoning himself for all crimes or resigning and having the Vice President pardon him for all crimes?
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Between the Russia investigation, Trump's public musings of pardoning himself and his family members, and a feud with the First Lady of Japan, it's a race to the bottom in terms of absurdities coming from the White House.
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Last week, as he lost a third minister to congressional pressure, Kuczynski said it was time for him to consider pardoning Fujimori's father, former President Alberto Fujimori, who is serving a 25-year sentence for human rights violations.
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"There are two elephants in the room and no one is talking about them: the emergency pardoning decree and the decree that changes criminal codes," Iohannis, a center-right leader, said at the start of the cabinet meeting.
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Washington (CNN)An attorney for Navy SEAL chief Edward "Eddie" Gallagher also represents the Trump Organization, CNN has learned, just days after reports surfaced indicating the President is considering pardoning Gallagher of charges that could constitute war crimes.
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And certainly pardoning Arpaio isn't going to be some kind of flag of hope that clemency is going to re-emerge as a relevant part of presidential decision-making like it has been for most of American history.
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"Pardoning Snowden would show the world the U.S. cares [about] human rights at a time of great concern," said Ben Wizner, an American Civil Liberties Union attorney working on behalf of Snowden, about the Pardon Snowden Campaign petition.
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And because that wasn't enough -- and because alienating the African-American community last week was not enough -- he decided to raise the possibility of pardoning former Sheriff Arpaio, a man who has been accused of racially profiling Latinos.
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Eric Holder, Obama's first attorney general, once said there were other aspects of Johnson's life that made the idea of pardoning him more difficult, despite a bipartisan effort led by then-Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and Sen.
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Tom RooneyThomas (Tom) Joseph RooneyHouse Dem calls on lawmakers to 'insulate' election process following Mueller report Hill-HarrisX poll: 76 percent oppose Trump pardoning former campaign aides Dems fear Trump is looking at presidential pardons MORE (R-Fla.).
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that he could not consider pardoning a Norwegian held in Russia on espionage charges as a verdict had not yet been reached in his trial, Russian news agencies reported.
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From the misguided and wasteful proposition that a southern border wall will solve our immigration problems to the stunning pardoning of Sherriff Joe Arpaio, this president has shown his willingness to condone xenophobic and discriminatory actions toward Latinos.
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Investigative work ended Richard Nixon's presidency, and it deeply imperiled Ronald Reagan's at the height of the Iran-Contra scandal — that inquiry was ultimately scuttled by George H.W. Bush pardoning a number of high-ranking Reagan administration officials.
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Some of the dozens of questions that Mr. Carter answered were distinctively of the late 1970s: about the gas tax, Mr. Carter's pardoning of draft dodgers in Vietnam and the early days of the U.S. space shuttle program.
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Some of the dozens of questions that Mr. Carter answered were distinctively of the late 1970s: about the gas tax, Mr. Carter's pardoning of draft dodgers in Vietnam, and the early days of the U.S. space shuttle program.
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Sen. Kamala Harris may still face questions over her past record on criminal justice, but in an appearance Wednesday, she sought to focus squarely on future reforms, committing to pardoning low-level drug offenders if she becomes president.
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Trump announced on Friday he was pardoning Joe Arpaio, an anti-immigration hardliner found guilty last month for flouting a 2011 court order that barred officers from detaining Latino motorists solely on the suspicion they were illegal immigrants.
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The threat of impeachment may be looming larger each day, with Democrats expected to release a crucial report after Thanksgiving, but it did not stop the White House from reveling this week in the somewhat goofy pardoning tradition.
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In an effort to ease the transition to democracy in 1977 after Franco's death, Spain passed an amnesty law pardoning political crimes committed during the conflict and the dictatorship in an accord known as the "Pact of Forgetting".
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President Trump earlier made waves by pardoning former Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was convicted of a misdemeanor charge of criminal contempt of court for violating a federal judge's order dealing with the detention of illegal immigrants.
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In speaking about the violence in Charlottesville, pardoning Arpaio, and planning to give police more military weapons, the president and his administration frame these topics as attempts to combat crime and violence — not about the specific racial elements involved.
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The pardoning of Dinesh D&aposSouza was a one-off, but this president has pardoned I think 503 percent of the applicants in front of him, which is a far lower number than any previous president at this point.
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The Post, citing people familiar with the effort, said Trump's legal team was trying to find ways to undercut Mueller's role by amassing allegations of conflicts of interest against him and exploring how Trump can use his pardoning powers.
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Republicans in Congress and the president himself are constantly hamstringing or just threatening to blow up the Mueller investigation entirely, and Donald Trump is pardoning famous people or people famous people told him to care about seemingly every week.
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"I would get more thrill out of pardoning people nobody has heard of, like Alice yesterday," said Trump, referring to his commutation of Alice Johnson, a woman who served more than 20 years on a first-time drug charge.
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Tom RooneyThomas (Tom) Joseph RooneyHouse Dem calls on lawmakers to 'insulate' election process following Mueller report Hill-HarrisX poll: 76 percent oppose Trump pardoning former campaign aides Dems fear Trump is looking at presidential pardons MORE (R-Fla.) said.
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The president cannot obstruct justice by taking lawful actions that are within his constitutional prerogative, like pardoning people or firing Comey, or weighing in on whether somebody should be prosecuted which prosecutors across the country do that every day.
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I could see real pain in his eyes, and knew he was angry for a litany of legitimate reasons, from the president's response to Charlottesville to the pardoning of Joe Arpaio to the Trump-fueled rise of white supremacists.
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The overwhelming consensus was that Trump could make a plausible legal argument that his pardoning powers extend to himself, mostly because the Constitution isn't clear about this — and, frankly, because this is just not a situation the framers expected.
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WASHINGTON — A lawyer for President Trump broached the idea of Mr. Trump's pardoning two of his former top advisers, Michael T. Flynn and Paul Manafort, with their lawyers last year, according to three people with knowledge of the discussions.
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He started his term as president by angering the Radical Republicans and betraying the emancipated slaves, pardoning Confederates at a breakneck pace of almost 100 a day and insisting that black suffrage was a matter for states to decide.
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In addition to Black, the White House announced on Wednesday that Trump is pardoning Patrick Nolan, a former Republican leader of the California state assembly who pleaded guilty to a racketeering charge and spent 29 months in federal custody.
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The list includes the question of whether Trump can be subpoenaed to testify in a criminal case; the legal basis for Mueller's probe; Trump's power to fire Mueller; and whether the president can escape criminal liability by pardoning himself.
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By pardoning Mr. Libby, Mr. Trump sends a message to Paul Manafort, Michael Cohen and any of his other close aides who are facing or may face potential prosecution pursuant to the investigation by Robert Mueller, the special counsel.
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By pardoning Michael R. Milken, a potent symbol of the "greed is good" 1980s and arguably the most significant white-collar criminal of his generation, President Trump has sent two powerful messages: When it comes to justice, money counts.
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By pardoning him, Mr. Trump would show his contempt for the American court system and its only means of enforcing the law, since he would be sending a message to other officials that they may flout court orders also.
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The model of pardoning that Jefferson and his influences opposed was that of 17th Century English kings, who would often grant pardons to advisors and favorites who had gotten into legal trouble or found themselves in conflict with Parliament.
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Through screening all requests for executive clemency and evaluating their merits, the Office of the Pardon Attorney introduced a measure of regularity into the process, rendering the exercise of pardoning more a function of bureaucratic administration than executive discretion.
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Pardoning Arpaio — who was convicted of contempt of court in July for continuing to engage in aggressive immigration enforcement in defiance of a 2011 court order, before he is even sentenced — was an unusual move, to say the least.
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And he's pandering to concerns that undocumented immigrants are taking native-born (read: white) Americans' jobs — by pardoning a sheriff who was found in contempt of court for profiling Latinos as unauthorized immigrants after a court told him not to.
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His platform consists of 100 proposals that range from forcing the government to disclose secret time travel technologies and putting bigfoot on the endangered species list, to pardoning Edward Snowden and investing $13 billion in infrastructure and programming for Native Americans.
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But a pardoning ceremony can be a bit of an awkward affair when your campaign is under federal investigation: A reporter just shouted from the back of the rose garden at the president: "ARE YOU GOING TO PARDON ANY PEOPLE!?"
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He said his country welcomed Russian-brokered local ceasefire deals that Moscow is seeking to extend elsewhere in Syria as these would end bloodshed and bring an end to the insurgency and pardoning of rebels who agree to lay down arms.
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On Russia, too, the dominant news of the week was not that something had happened but that Trump was considering doing something — firing the special counsel, pardoning aides in advance of indictments — that, if it happened, would be entirely unprecedented.
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That includes the 214 from the latest round — more commutations in a single day than have been issued, total, by any president since Lyndon B. Johnson (though, in fairness, most past presidents focused on pardoning ex-prisoners rather than commutations).
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Thursday pardoned a conservative commentator and said he was considering pardoning lifestyle maven Martha Stewart and commuting a former Illinois governor's prison sentence, prompting critics to accuse him of subverting the rule of law.
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Trump has not ruled out pardoning Manafort, his 2016 campaign chairman who was convicted in 2018 on tax and bank fraud charges and pleaded guilty to other charges as well in two federal cases brought by Mueller in Virginia and Washington.
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When Donald Trump announced Saturday that he was considering pardoning Jack Johnson, a long-dead black champion boxer who was convicted of a crime in 1913 for taking his white girlfriend across state lines, it took the country by surprise.
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Both The New York Times and The Washington Post reported Thursday evening that Trump's revamped legal team is exploring ways to undercut Mueller by pursuing these allegations of conflicts of interest and exploring how the President could use his pardoning powers.
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's new communications director and a member of his legal team said Sunday that Trump has no need to use his pardoning power as it relates to the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
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Trump had been closely following Arpaio's case long before pardoning him on Friday, and months ago asked Sessions and other administration lawyers, including White House counsel Don McGahn, whether his administration could intercede in the matter, the official said Sunday.
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Tom RooneyThomas (Tom) Joseph RooneyHouse Dem calls on lawmakers to 'insulate' election process following Mueller report Hill-HarrisX poll: 76 percent oppose Trump pardoning former campaign aides Dems fear Trump is looking at presidential pardons MORE (R-Fla.) said to reporters.
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For weeks before Trump stunned the political world by floating the possibility of pardoning the currently incarcerated Rod Blagojevich, the ex-governor and his family had been on a PR campaign aimed directly at the President of the United States.
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"Pardoning Joe Arpaio is a slap in the face to the people of Maricopa County, especially the Latino community and those he victimized as he systematically and illegally violated their civil rights," Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton (D) said in a statement.
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If the entire Mueller investigation is the equivalent of one, big unconstitutional search, as Trump appeared to claim on Monday, then pardoning individuals targeted by the probe, including himself, would be tantamount to righting a wrong and to protecting constitutional rights.
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On the other hand, making pardoning into a game – a prize to be won by the famous and those chosen by the famous – endangers the legitimacy of the very Constitution that gives Trump the power to pardon in the first place.
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The New York Times reported Wednesday that a member of Trump's legal team had raised the prospect of the president pardoning Manafort last year, along with former national security advisor Michael Flynn, who pleaded guilty to charges in Mueller's probe.
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It is possible that a judge would rule that even if a self-pardon would relieve the president of liability for a crime, the act of self-pardoning itself is a crime, obstruction of justice, that would independently create criminal liability.
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We spoke with Khalilah Ali -- who was married to Muhammad from '67 to '76 -- and she was shocked when she watched Trump tell the media he was considering pardoning Ali ... presumably for his conviction for resisting the draft in 1971.
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Going down the second route could spark a massive political conflict with Congress because of the obvious impropriety of Trump pardoning a family member or close associate for crimes committed to help him win the presidency in the first place.
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If the president is seen as thwarting Mr. Mueller's investigation, either by terminating the special counsel or pardoning allies who are implicated, it would create a far more serious upheaval and force Republican lawmakers into a confrontation they have long avoided.
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The Supreme Court may have to consider questions about whether a sitting president can be indicted or subpoenaed, and what effect pardoning a federal offense would have on state charges for the same conduct — an issue bound up in Gamble v.
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They were about normalizing the sort of obstruction of justice and financial crimes he's been implicated in, as well as laying the groundwork for pardoning or commuting the sentence of longtime confidant Roger Stone, who's scheduled to be sentenced on Thursday.
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Tom RooneyThomas (Tom) Joseph RooneyHouse Dem calls on lawmakers to 'insulate' election process following Mueller report Hill-HarrisX poll: 76 percent oppose Trump pardoning former campaign aides Dems fear Trump is looking at presidential pardons MORE (R-Fla.) told reporters.
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" Generally, Trump's stance on pardons has been uneven, ranging from then-White House counsel Ty Cobb saying "no pardons are under discussion" to the President himself saying that pardoning Manafort "was never discussed but I wouldn't take it off the table.
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He added it was also inappropriate at this time to think about pardoning ex-South Korean leader Park Geun-hye who is currently in a holding facility and awaiting her corruption trial after being impeached over an influence-peddling scandal.
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But pardoning Manafort would be especially controversial given Manafort's place at the center of investigations into what Trump did or did not know about Russian intelligence's efforts to influence the 2016 election, and whether Trump himself was involved in those efforts.
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Legal experts cited in the report said that pardoning several accused and convicted war criminals, including some who have not yet gone to trial, has not been done in recent history, and some worried such pardons could erode the legitimacy of military law.
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Hours later, the President retweeted a Fox News report stating that Trump is "seriously considering" pardoning ex-Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was found guilty of criminal contempt for defying a judge's order to to stop racially profiling and targeting suspected undocumented immigrants.
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This is partly linked to the pardoning of several political prisoners, while the opposition is represented in parliament for the first time in 20 years following a 2016 election that Western observers said was not fully democratic but an improvement on previous votes.
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Martha MacCallum: America loves a second chance Trump should consider pardoning ex-CIA boss Petraeus , senator says FIRST IN WAR, FIRST IN PEACE, FIRST IN HOCKEY: For the first time in franchise history, the NHL&aposs Washington Capitals have won the Stanley Cup .. .
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Arpaio was in power for 24 years as the sheriff of Maricopa County before he lost the election in November 2016 and the reason Trump is pardoning is that the former sheriff was found guilty of criminal contempt of court in late July.
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Kim Kardashian West went to the White House on Wednesday to discuss the pardoning of Alice Johnson, a 62-year-old woman serving a life sentence for a first-time nonviolent drug offense, a representative for the reality star confirmed to BuzzFeed News.
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There is also concern that Trump will go through with a controversial idea he floated to Fox News last week: pardoning former Maricopa County sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was convicted last month of defying a judge's order to stop racially profiling Latinos.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump held out an olive branch in his feud with National Football League players on Friday, asking them for recommendations as he considers pardoning several thousand people who may have been unfairly treated by the criminal justice system.
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Despite his conviction, Lee plans to appeal, and history is on his side for a pardon: South Korea has a long legacy of pardoning chaebol chairmen, including Lee's own father, who was pardoned not once, but twice, for tax evasion and bribery.
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Brian C. Kalt is a professor of law at Michigan State University and the author of a 2012 book entitled "Constitutional Cliffhangers: A Legal Guide for Presidents and Their Enemies," told CNN that the presidential pardoning power is, in fact, very broad.
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When Obama hasn't been busy fighting against the jobs-creating energy industry or unjustly preventing development on millions of acres of land, he's been pardoning or commuting the sentences of more than 22019,300 convicted criminals, including 395 who were serving life sentences.
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Tom RooneyThomas (Tom) Joseph RooneyHouse Dem calls on lawmakers to 'insulate' election process following Mueller report Hill-HarrisX poll: 22019 percent oppose Trump pardoning former campaign aides Dems fear Trump is looking at presidential pardons MORE (R-Fla.) in a statement Friday.
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The infantile, all-about-me aspect of Trump can be seen in the way he abuses his pardoning power to score points against his political foes and law enforcement officials, and made nuclear diplomacy into a performance piece featuring his own ego.
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On Thursday morning, President Donald Trump announced that he's pardoning Dinesh D'Souza, the conservative pundit who was convicted in 2014 of making an illegal donation to Republican Wendy Long's 2012 Senate campaign: Will be giving a Full Pardon to Dinesh D'Souza today.
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Tom RooneyThomas (Tom) Joseph RooneyHouse Dem calls on lawmakers to 'insulate' election process following Mueller report Hill-HarrisX poll: 76 percent oppose Trump pardoning former campaign aides Dems fear Trump is looking at presidential pardons MORE (R-Fla.) in a statement Friday.
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Or would the President attempt to get ahead of Mueller by pardoning associates, including former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn, who on Friday pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about conversations with Russia's ambassador and disclosed he is cooperating with Mueller.
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These are some, but possibly not all, of the suspected and confirmed war criminals that President Donald Trump reportedly now seeks to pardon, a week after pardoning Matthew Behenna, who had been serving 15 years in prison for killing an Iraqi prisoner.
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Tom RooneyThomas (Tom) Joseph RooneyHouse Dem calls on lawmakers to 'insulate' election process following Mueller report Hill-HarrisX poll: 76 percent oppose Trump pardoning former campaign aides Dems fear Trump is looking at presidential pardons MORE (R-Fla.) echoed similar sentiments on CNN.
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But there is nothing that Trump or his lieutenants have done that comes close, in sheer fetid swampiness, to pardoning the criminal former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, a move the White House made official on Friday.
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Bernadette Meyler is Carl and Sheila Spaeth Professor of Law and Associate Dean of Curriculum at Stanford Law School and the author of Theaters of Pardoning (forthcoming 2019, Cornell University Press) and New Directions in Law and Literature (Oxford University Press, 2017).
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But legal scholars have laid out cases for impeachment based on Trump's blatant violations of the Constitution's emoluments clause; his abuse of power in pardoning the former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio; and for passing Israeli intelligence to Russian officials, among other misdeeds.
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Mr. Giuliani told The Washington Post earlier on Thursday that the president had asked his lawyers for their advice on pardoning Mr. Manafort, though Mr. Giuliani characterized the discussions to The New York Times as instigated by the lawyers, not the president.
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Seth MoultonSeth MoultonDeval Patrick beefs up campaign staff Lawmakers honor JFK on 56th anniversary of his death Pardoning war crimes dishonors the military MORE's (D-Mass.) presidential campaign, meanwhile, will join the Patrick campaign as director of states, according to the press release.
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By pardoning Mr. Libby, Mr. Trump sends a message to those who might incriminate him in crimes related to conspiring with Russians to tamper with the election: The message is that he will rectify any sadness that protecting a president might cause.
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Mr. Trump, who made cracking down on illegal immigration a signature campaign issue and had pressed for local officials to do more to assist federal authorities in rounding up undocumented people, had been openly flirting with the idea of pardoning Mr. Arpaio.
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And "embracing terrorism" more aptly describes President Aliyev's hoodwinking of Hungary into extraditing an axe-murderer to serve his sentence in Azerbaijan for killing an Armenian officer at a NATO training conference—then pardoning him in Baku and declaring him a hero.
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And while Johnson had very little time left, he did manage to deliver one last massive fuck you to his congressional tormentors on the way out: He issued a general amnesty pardoning every single Confederate, allowing them to rejoin public life immediately.
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While Moon has promised a shake-up of South Korea's powerful family-run conglomerates, lawmakers would likely support more modest changes, such as ending the practice of pardoning convicted corporate criminals, given the outsized importance of chaebols to Asia's fourth-largest economy.
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As Dara Lind explained for Vox, President Bill Clinton left office with a massive pardoning controversy when, on his last day in office, he issued 140 pardons, including to his brother-in-law and Marc Rich, whose ex-wife was a Clinton donor.
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Trump is still considering pardoning lifestyle maven Martha Stewart, who was convicted in an insider trading case, and commuting the sentence of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, serving 14 years on felony corruption charges, along with several others, the White House official said.
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"The issue of pardoning someone is an individual decision that's made on a case-by-case basis, and so there's no legal framework or regulatory framework that allows for a pardon of a group en masse," Lynch said, speaking at a Politico Playbook breakfast.
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Cohen said he understood from Trump's comments that he'd have the White House's support if he continued to stay on message, and that he believed Trump's personal counsel had conveyed that Trump would take care of him, either by pardoning him or ending the probe.
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Joko Widodo, the president of Indonesia, announced that he was pardoning Abu Bakar Basyir, a cleric who was the spiritual leader of Jemaah Islamiah, an Islamist terrorist group that killed over 200 people by exploding bombs in a tourist resort in Bali in 2012.
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"Our president has given signals that he is reviewing the Constitution and, in the process of reviewing it, it has been published that the review includes that possibility of his considering pardoning himself," Green — who already has filed articles of impeachment against President Trump — said.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday declined to say whether he would consider pardoning any of his associates amid the ongoing Russia probe, declaring it was too early to consider such action and noting that so far no one has been convicted.
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But just days earlier, the president told reporters outside the White House that he had not discussed pardoning Manafort, who was convicted last year on tax and bank fraud charges lodged by Mueller and is set to receive his final prison sentence this week.
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White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders told reporters on Air Force One en route Arizona that "there will be no discussion" about pardoning former sheriff Joe Arpaio today and "no action will be taken on that front at any point today," per a pool report.
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"In pardoning Snowden, President Obama would be helping to secure his legacy while sending a powerful message on his way out – that standing up to government abuse is a tradition we should treasure and take with us into the next four years," Yachot added.
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The 11 instances of possible obstruction included Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey in May 2017, his attempts to fire Mueller, who was appointed special counsel after Comey's dismissal, and his signaling that he would be opening to pardoning Michael Flynn and Michael Cohen.
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Tom RooneyThomas (Tom) Joseph RooneyHouse Dem calls on lawmakers to 'insulate' election process following Mueller report Hill-HarrisX poll: 76 percent oppose Trump pardoning former campaign aides Dems fear Trump is looking at presidential pardons MORE (R-Fla.), told The Hill earlier this week.
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More from Trump's 20-minute chat with reporters: Scott Pruitt's ethical behavior: "Scott Pruitt is doing a great job within the walls of the EPA," but "I'm not saying he's blameless" Trump said he's considering pardoning thousands of people, including deceased boxer Muhammad Ali.
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Legally, Trump always has the option of pardoning Cohen and Manafort and/or ordering his new attorney general to fire Mueller, but either of these options would likely cause more political trouble than simply waiting to see what Mueller will bring in his report.
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The president has tested bounds, poking fun at Joe Biden regarding accusations that the former vice president touched women inappropriately and floating the idea of pardoning the acting homeland security secretary if he were to get in legal trouble by shutting down the border.
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Last month, the private government watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington filed a request to the Treasury Department for all communications between Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and anyone else that contain the words "pardon" or "pardoning" from January 2018 until last month.
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Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman James InhofeJames (Jim) Mountain InhofeRepublicans raise concerns over Trump pardoning service members Congress braces for chaotic December The job no GOP senator wants: 'I'd rather have a root canal' MORE (R-Okla.) said he would rather undergo a dental procedure.
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Thom TillisThomas (Thom) Roland TillisNC rep explores Tillis primary challenge Republicans raise concerns over Trump pardoning service members Tillis challenger dropping GOP primary bid in North Carolina MORE (R), after new congressional district maps have put the three-term congressman's political future in doubt.
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" Minutes later, he was mashing the RT button again, this time on a response tweet to a story about Joe Arpaio, Arizona's disgraced anti-immigrant sheriff, who Trump is reportedly considering pardoning—the catch is that the Twitter user was calling Arpaio a "fascist.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he has not thought about pardoning his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort after he was sentenced to another 3-1/2 years in prison, although he said he felt "very bad" for his ex-aide.
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Also, judge, Andrew Napolitano unleashes on the -- on the Trump legal team next (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) RUDY GIULIANI, LAWYER OF PRESIDENT TRUMP: The President of the United States pardoning himself would just be unthinkable and it would -- it would lead to probably particularly an immediate impeachment.
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Then, reading from prepared notes, Trump cited some of the more controversial presidential pardons of his predecessors, including President Clinton's pardoning of former financier Mark Rich on his last day in office, and President Obama's of Chelsea Manning, who was charged with violating the federal Espionage Act.
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump mentioned his presidential pardoning powers and condemned intelligence leaks in a string of tweets Saturday morning, a day after The Washington Post reported that Attorney General Jeff Sessions spoke about the Trump campaign in meetings with the Russian ambassador last year.
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The scope of that crisis is much clearer now that the Washington Post is reporting that Trump is discussing the possibility of pardoning himself, his family, and his closest aides to short-circuit the sprawling investigation of his campaign's complicity in Russia's subversion of the 2016 election.
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Tom RooneyThomas (Tom) Joseph RooneyHouse Dem calls on lawmakers to 'insulate' election process following Mueller report Hill-HarrisX poll: 85033 percent oppose Trump pardoning former campaign aides Dems fear Trump is looking at presidential pardons MORE (R-Fla.), a senior member of the House Intelligence Committee.
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Tom RooneyThomas (Tom) Joseph RooneyHouse Dem calls on lawmakers to 'insulate' election process following Mueller report Hill-HarrisX poll: 76 percent oppose Trump pardoning former campaign aides Dems fear Trump is looking at presidential pardons MORE (R-Fla.) is set to retire from Congress come January.
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Yet no one suggested that President Bush be charged with obstruction of justice, because in pardoning those witnesses he was exercising his constitutional authority under Article II. President Andrew Johnson was impeached for firing Secretary of War Edwin Stanton in violation of a statute passed by Congress.
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ON BOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said he was considering pardoning celebrity lifestyle guru Martha Stewart, who was convicted in 2004 on charges of conspiracy, obstruction of justice and making false statements related to a probe of alleged insider trading.
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The Phoenix visit also comes on the heels of Trump's recent statement that he is considering pardoning former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was found guilty two weeks ago of criminal contempt after defying a state judge's order to stop targeting undocumented immigrants during traffic stops.
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The addition of a new idea -- that he or his legal team could consider pardoning people either indicted by Mueller (like Manafort) or who are supposed to, as part of a plea deal, be cooperating with him (like Flynn) take the whole conversation to a new level.
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Despite indications that Trump has been looking into the use of his pardon authority, and may have laid a foundation with his recent pardoning of former Bush administration official Scooter Libby, a pardon for Cohen would not deliver either Trump or Cohen entirely out of harm's way.
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"By pardoning him you're saying that's OK." Arpaio is facing real jail time Arpaio was convicted of criminal contempt of court after U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton said he had demonstrated "flagrant disregard" of a federal court order that directed him to stop his immigration round-ups.
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Paul Rudd's story about crafting a fake ID in high school is hilariously ridiculous Bernie Sanders destroys Jimmy Fallon at basketball while answering campaign questions Stephen Colbert has the perfect burn for Trump's turkey pardoning Smooth Bernie Sanders slow-jams the news, quotes Lizzo on Jimmy Fallon
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump has asked for files to be prepared on pardoning several U.S. military members accused of or convicted of war crimes, including one slated to stand trial on charges of shooting unarmed civilians while in Iraq, the New York Times reported on Saturday.
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You may know me as the person who will not be pardoning Sheriff Joe Arpaio, but in my spare time, I talk tech, and you are listening to Recode Decode, a podcast about tech and media's key players, big ideas and how they're changing the world we live in.
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So there is a line of thinking in Washington that Republicans are already looking into Trump rather than letting him get off scot-free — and that if Trump did anything really extreme, like firing Mueller or preemptively pardoning his aides, that would be a bridge too far. Maybe.
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Brit, you and I have covered a lot of scandals and they are taking a very forward-leaning position on the presidential powers when it comes to obstruction of justice, when it comes to having a sit down and answer to a subpoena, when it comes to pardoning.
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President Donald Trump's announcement that he was pardoning far-right commentator Dinesh D'Souza, who pleaded guilty in 2014 to campaign finance fraud, caught many in Trump world by surprise Thursday morning, but they insisted it was not indicative of possible pardons for Trump allies ensnared in the Russia probe.
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Trump also said he might commute the 14-year prison sentence of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, a Democrat convicted of corruption charges, and was considering pardoning a woman convicted of a drug-related charge after reality TV star Kim Kardashian discussed the case with him on Wednesday.
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These are basically questions about how other parts of society can receive a pardon and how a pardon works in real life — whether the pardoning of a conviction then erases what preceded the conviction, and whether civil society can still make decisions based on what preceded the conviction.
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By pardoning and commuting the sentences of more than 1,300 people who were found to have broken the law, Obama has effectively undermined the justice systems of the states and disregarded the will of the people who voted for representatives who enacted the laws used to convict these criminals.
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More from investigations … With a second trial looming in September, Manafort's only hope to escape prison is a presidential pardon (The Hill) … Republicans warn Trump against pardoning Manafort (The Hill) … Manafort juror reveals that lone holdout prevented him from being convicted on all 18 counts against him (Fox News).
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Tom RooneyThomas (Tom) Joseph RooneyHouse Dem calls on lawmakers to 'insulate' election process following Mueller report Hill-HarrisX poll: 76 percent oppose Trump pardoning former campaign aides Dems fear Trump is looking at presidential pardons MORE (R-Fla.) said when the memo was first made available to House members.
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It would be preferable if he had a more systematic agenda, but he should be encouraged to exercise the presidential pardoning power for cases that go outside his preferred ambit of partisanship (as with his with pardons of Sheriff Joe Arpaio and former Dick Cheney adviser Scooter Libby).
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Sol Wisenberg, a Washington attorney who worked as part of independent counsel Kenneth Starr's investigation into President Clinton — and personally questioned the president — drew a distinction between Trump's assertion of pardoning powers and the broader assertion that it was essentially impossible for a president to commit obstruction of justice.
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Trump wants to normalize corrupt behavior from himself and his allies, he wants to set precedents that pardoning corrupt friends of the president is okay, and he wants to further cement the narrative that any FBI corruption investigations that touch on his allies are "deep state" frame-ups.
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By leaving open the possibility of pardoning a former aide whose lawyer was a source of inside information about an investigation into Mr. Trump himself, the president showed a new willingness to publicly signal that he will intervene to protect people who are in the special counsel's cross hairs.
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On Tuesday, senators took steps to limit Mr. Trump's ability to ease restrictions on ZTE, approving an amendment offered by Senator Chris Van Hollen, Democrat of Maryland, that would block the president from pardoning the company without first confirming to Congress that it was no longer violating the law.
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But he would be stretching the bounds of presidential power as they've never been tested before – and, more importantly, legal experts told me, Trump probably would not be able to halt Justice Department and congressional investigations simply by pardoning himself and any allies known to be under scrutiny.
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A judge on Wednesday dismissed New York state criminal charges filed against former Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort on double jeopardy grounds — thwarting an effort to ensure Manafort remains behind bars even if President Donald Trump ends up pardoning him for federal crimes that he was convicted of previously.
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Mitt RomneyWillard (Mitt) Mitt RomneyRepublicans raise concerns over Trump pardoning service members Mellman: The 'lane theory' is the wrong lane to be in Romney: 'No evidence' Ukraine meddled in 2016 election MORE (R-Utah) advised that Trump should listen to senior military commanders when assessing such difficult situations.
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The New York Times has reported that in 2017, Trump's then-lawyer John Dowd had talks with attorneys for former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort and former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, in which he "broached the idea" of Trump pardoning them if they were to be charged by Mueller.
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He invoked his own military service to explain a host of his views on Thursday, including his position on President Donald Trump pardoning service members convicted of war crimes and Trump not serving in the Vietnam War because he received multiple education deferments and one medical deferment for bone spurs.
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The question of obstruction of justice, he argued, shouldn't be applied in a case where the president uses a power granted to him in the constitution — such as firing an executive branch official, exercising his "prosecutorial discretion to give direction on a case," or pardoning someone convicted in the probe.
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Ronald Reagan took grief for pardoning two former FBI officials, W. Mark Felt and Edward S. Miller, who had been convicted of "conspiring to violate the constitutional rights of Americans" — essentially, they authorized "black bag jobs," government break-ins of anti-war radicals' homes and offices during the 6900's.
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Rep. Tom RooneyThomas (Tom) Joseph RooneyHouse Dem calls on lawmakers to 'insulate' election process following Mueller report Hill-HarrisX poll: 76 percent oppose Trump pardoning former campaign aides Dems fear Trump is looking at presidential pardons MORE (R-Fla.) will not seek reelection, the lawmaker said in a statement on Monday.
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Schiff offers bill to make domestic terrorism a federal crime New intel chief inherits host of challenges MORE (Calif.), the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, introduced a bill in April intended to deter Trump from pardoning any subject of the Russia probe or a member of his own family.
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A House Democrat plans to propose an amendment to the Constitution that would limit presidential pardoning authority in the wake of two Trump campaign aides facing indictments, and a third who pleaded guilty to lying to FBI investigators, in the special counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
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Tom RooneyThomas (Tom) Joseph RooneyHouse Dem calls on lawmakers to 'insulate' election process following Mueller report Hill-HarrisX poll: 76 percent oppose Trump pardoning former campaign aides Dems fear Trump is looking at presidential pardons MORE (R-Fla.), who sat on the House Intelligence Committee before retiring from Congress last year.
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Critics of Mr. Trump who fear that he may try to derail the investigation, such as by pardoning everyone involved, have taken comfort in a Politico report in August that suggested that Mr. Mueller was teaming up with New York's attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, and sharing evidence about Mr. Manafort.
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Average Americans may feel guilt or shame for the conduct of the war on terrorism — the pardoning of war criminals or the indefinite jailing, without trial, of men at Guantánamo or the civilian casualties caused by drone strikes — but it can be devastating for those who are a part of it.
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And I think that would be really useful instead of just maybe pardoning your buddies or the way Trump has been doing this, which I truly believe undermines the criminal-justice system, instead of just one off doing people like he just did with the governor of Illinois and others.
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President Donald Trump just held a surprise media event at the White House to announce he's pardoning former SF 53ers owner Edward DeBartolo Jr.. Now, some back story ... Back in the late '90s, DeBartolo -- who owned the 9ers at the time -- pled guilty to his role in a riverboat gambling scandal.
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Tom RooneyThomas (Tom) Joseph RooneyHouse Dem calls on lawmakers to 'insulate' election process following Mueller report Hill-HarrisX poll: 28500 percent oppose Trump pardoning former campaign aides Dems fear Trump is looking at presidential pardons MORE (R-Fla.), a member of the House Intelligence Committee who backed the underlying legislation.
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Tom RooneyThomas (Tom) Joseph RooneyHouse Dem calls on lawmakers to 'insulate' election process following Mueller report Hill-HarrisX poll: 76 percent oppose Trump pardoning former campaign aides Dems fear Trump is looking at presidential pardons MORE (R-Fla.) said during an interview with The New York Times's "The Daily" podcast.
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Stephen Colbert has the perfect burn for Trump's turkey pardoning Smooth Bernie Sanders slow-jams the news, quotes Lizzo on Jimmy Fallon Watch Kamala Harris meet Mindy Kaling's dad and cook Indian food Daisy Ridley recaps 8 Star Wars movies (and a Reylo clue?) in epic rap on Jimmy Fallon
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An attorney for President Donald Trump raised the idea of Trump pardoning two of his former top advisers last year as Special Counsel Robert Mueller was building a case against them in his probe into possible Russian interference in the U.S. presidential election, the New York Times reported on Wednesday.
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And in what some see as a signal to his pals under indictment or investigation in the Russia investigation and other criminal probes, Trump told reporters he is also considering pardoning former fellow Apprentice host Martha Stewart, who served time for insider trading, and commuting the prison sentence of former Illinois Gov.
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Many have also seen the president as sending a signal with his pardons to former aides and associates caught up in the probe, or lashing out at enemies like former FBI Director James Comey, who oversaw the prosecution of lifestyle guru Martha Stewart, whom Trump has said he is thinking of pardoning.
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There was an argument to be made, which actually made, as you know, Paul, a number of months ago, when the investigation was still going, I suggested that in lieu of firing Mueller, which I thought was a bad idea and still is, you can deprive him of his jurisdiction by pardoning everybody.
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The political consequences for Donald Trump of pardoning the likes of Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn, or his own son and son-in-law to thwart any potential criminal charges related to campaign collusion or financial dealings would be devastating -- many members of Congress, not to mention the public at large, would be outraged.
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Just because a person thinks the rich should pay more taxes, abortion should be legal, and carbon dioxide emissions should be regulated doesn't mean he's going to defend suspiciously profitable cattle future trading, pardoning the New Square Four, cashing huge checks from Goldman Sachs, or operating a strange off-the-books email server.
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" Note: Earlier in the day, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters, "I can tell you that there will be no discussion of (pardoning Arpaio, who was convicted of criminal contempt of court) today at any point, and no action will be taken on that front at any time today.
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Tom RooneyThomas (Tom) Joseph RooneyHouse Dem calls on lawmakers to 'insulate' election process following Mueller report Hill-HarrisX poll: 76 percent oppose Trump pardoning former campaign aides Dems fear Trump is looking at presidential pardons MORE (R-Fla.), a senior Republican on the Intelligence panel, told The Hill in an interview this week.
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Tom RooneyThomas (Tom) Joseph RooneyHouse Dem calls on lawmakers to 'insulate' election process following Mueller report Hill-HarrisX poll: 76 percent oppose Trump pardoning former campaign aides Dems fear Trump is looking at presidential pardons MORE (R-Fla.), who served as a senior member of the House panel's investigation into Russian interference.
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"After the pardoning, the turkeys will join last year's turkeys at Virginia Tech's 'Gobblers Rest' exhibit, where students and veterinarians care for the turkeys, and the public can visit and learn about the university's teaching, research and outreach programs in animal and poultry sciences and veterinary medicine," the White House statement said.
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Adding to all of this news Trump's recent pardoning spree, which in my opinion is an undeniable message to Michael Cohen and others that Trump will bail them out of federal crimes (like lying to federal investigators) if the going gets rough, and you have a pretty solid case for obstruction of justice.
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By pardoning former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, convicted of contempt in a racial profiling case, signing an executive order to cut funds for sanctuary cities and introducing a travel ban on certain Muslim countries, Trump has made it unlikely that any significant political challenger can get to the right of him on immigration.
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"After the pardoning, the turkeys will join last year's turkeys at Virginia Tech's 'Gobblers Rest' exhibit, where students and veterinarians care for the turkeys, and the public can visit and learn about the university's teaching, research and outreach programs in animal and poultry sciences and veterinary medicine," a White House statement said.
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He was about to call the neophyte president of a poor, embattled country—a country whose previous leaders had, in Mr Trump's mind, conspired to do him down, but which also might hold the key to smearing his possible adversary in the coming election and providing some justification for pardoning Mr Manafort.
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Tom RooneyThomas (Tom) Joseph RooneyHouse Dem calls on lawmakers to 'insulate' election process following Mueller report Hill-HarrisX poll: 76 percent oppose Trump pardoning former campaign aides Dems fear Trump is looking at presidential pardons MORE (R-Fla.) said when asked if Lewandowski would be the last witness the panel would interview.
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