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can he do that? pardon someone that hasn't been apprehended nor trialed yet?
by WilliamDhalgren 10y ago
can he do that? pardon someone that hasn't been apprehended nor trialed yet?
- ianai 10y agoFord pardoned Nixon for whatever he had done against the country. It's possible despite unlikely.
- jboynyc 10y agoIn the case of Ford's pardon of Nixon, the pardon covered "any crimes he might have committed against the United States while president," as Wikipedia currently has it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pardon_of_Richard_Nixon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pardon_of_Richard_Nixon As the entry goes on to state, that was controversial, but it worked. So it should be able to work in a case like this as well.
- lucozade 10y agoClinton pardoned Marc Rich [0] who was, at the time of the pardon, a fugitive in Switzerland. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Rich https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Rich