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I was under the impression that a blanket proclamation like this wasn't enough; he still had to sign off on every pardon individually. Not sure why I thought t
by shadowgovt 4y ago
I was under the impression that a blanket proclamation like this wasn't enough; he still had to sign off on every pardon individually.
Not sure why I thought that though.
- evanb 4y agoCarter pardoned Vietnam draft dodgers via a similar blanket proclamation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proclamation_4483 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proclamation_4483. But they're relatively rare.
- bink 4y agoI've read that the constitutionality of that blanket pardon was never really tested as no one wanted to challenge it.
- curiousllama 4y agoIt was a thing in VA for a while. I the governor had to sign 200k individual orders to restore voting rights to felons. Just a quirk of VA law, though > McAuliffe, a man known for his irascibility, promised to find a way to restore voting rights anyway, using an autopen to sign individual orders for all 200,000 felons within two weeks. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/08/virginia-felon-disenfranchisement-mcauliffe/496898/ https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/08/virgini...
- shadowgovt 4y agoThank you; this is what I was thinking of.