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Midwestern Democrat

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5. Governors used to have the power to refuse extradition requests - Jerry Brown refused South Dakota's

Reply to NYC Liberal (Reply #2)

Fri May 22, 2020, 06:12 AM

May 2020

request to extradite Indian activist Dennis Banks in the late '70s; in 1932, the Governor of New Jersey refused Georgia's request to extradite Robert Elliott Burns - whose autobiography was made into the famous film "I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang" - but the Supreme Court took away this power in 1987, reversing an 1860 Supreme Court decision that permitted the Governor of Ohio to refuse Kentucky's request to extradite a free black man accused of aiding an escaped slave.

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If NY state convicts Trump, can FL-DeSantis refuse extradition? [View all] Patterson May 2020 OP

If Trump is convicted in anything, I will go all Batman to deliver him for sentencing!! Moostache May 2020 #1

No NYC Liberal May 2020 #2

oooouuuu.... TY NYC Liberal! Cha May 2020 #4

Governors used to have the power to refuse extradition requests - Jerry Brown refused South Dakota's Midwestern Democrat May 2020 #5

florida can sheild residents from CIVIL suits won in other states, but not felonies. beachbumbob May 2020 #3

I anticipate lots of civil suits. Patterson May 2020 #6