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Is their a historical precedent for something like this? (ie sitting president pardons incoming president?)
by arzt 10y ago
Is their a historical precedent for something like this? (ie sitting president pardons incoming president?)
- swissoak 10y agoI don't believe so, but we have plenty of shitty precedents with Obama's 8 years.
- AnimalMuppet 10y agoNot quite. There is precedent for the new president pardoning the outgoing president, though - Ford pardoned Nixon for anything and everything Nixon had done that was illegal during his term in office. That closed the book on Watergate, but it arguably cost Ford the election to Carter.