How Long Will Bush's Pardon List Be Next Jan., And Who Will Be On It ???

[WillyT]

Just curious.

:shrug::evilgrin::shrug:

[mermaid]

1. Can A Resident Actually Pardon HIMSELF???

Bush's Pardon List...

Dick Cheney
Condi Rice
John Ashcroft
Don Rumsfeld

All Halliburton Executives

Paul Wolfowitz
Ken Lay

The ENTIRE Saudi Royal Family!!

lessee...I'm sure I'll think of others, but this is a good start, no?

On Edit: you can bet your ASS Martha Stewart won't make the list!!

On Edit Again...another name for the list...Katherine Harris

[JohnLocke]

5. No.

[AndyTiedye]

16. Win, Lose, or Steal. He'll Pardon Himself Anyway

The Supreme Court will say it's all OK.

[Jack Rabbit]

14. Yes.

His power ot pardon is unrestrained. He can pardon himself, although not even Nixon was so brash as to do so.

[unblock]

2. why not save time and just pardon the entire republican party?

strike that, just pardon the actual donor list....

[joanne]

4. For sure Rumsfailed, Cheney and his "wife" CondoLIESza

for starters at least.

[KT2000]

3. Add Ken Lay

and all the other Enron folks

[BattyDem]

6. He'll pardon ...

all the criminals in the administration, Halliburton executives, Ken Lay ... and then he'll resign so Cheney can become President and pardon Bush! :mad:

[WillyT]

7. Santa Will Make A List Rewarding The Nice, And Punishing The Naughty !!!

Bush will make a list ignoring the nice, and rewarding the naughty (and criminal).

I always new that Santa was a Democrat!!!

:bounce::evilgrin::bounce:

[Jacobin]

8. Kenny Boy, Rumfilled, Feith, Wolfowitz, Perle, Asscrack,

Novakula, Rove, Gonzales (torture lawyer guy), Delay, Jeb, Katherine Harris, the list will probably run into the thousands.

[WillyT]

9. What Will Be Interesting, Is The Names Of Those We've Never Heard Of !!!

Have to be hundreds flying below the radar by this point, no?

:shrug:

[Tight_rope]

20. I agree with your list.

[flewellyn]

10. Tangential question.

Can pardons be overturned by the next President, or by an act of Congress?

[WillyT]

11. I Don't Think So, But I Don't Know For Sure !!!

Good question though.

:hi:

[LiberalTechie1337]

12. probably not

looking at it abstractly, it would probably infringe upon the separtion of powers

[WillyT]

13. Yeah, And It Wouldn't Be Much Of A 'Pardon' If...

it could be turned over so easily!

:shrug:

[Lerkfish]

18. my best guess is no...

because once someone is pardoned for a crime, they can't be retried for the same crime, that would be double jeopardy.

[Endangered Specie]

19. No, a presidential pardon is absolute.

[seemslikeadream]

15. Uncle Jonathan Bush of Riggs Bank

guilty of funding terrorist and money laundering.

[T Bone]

17. And how many of them will the next GOP president hire ?

dumbya* has people in his admin that were pardoned on xmas eve 1992 by his father. Now what would happen if Hillary became president and even thought of hiring someone Bill had pardoned? You know what would happen. I still think this could be a campaign issue this year. How many of his daddy's pardonnees are in dumbya's* white house ? hmmmm?
That's restoring honor and dignity? More like restoring criminal bums.

[gatlingforme]

21. Bushes entire Administration and whomever outed Plame he will

pardon that person twice.

[nolabels]

22. Don't they have to be accused of a crime before being pardoned?

That really wasn't legal with the Ford / Nixon thing. How in the hell can you say of crimes he might of committed but have no charges as of yet. To me that smacks of complicity, aiding and abetting and a few others.

The only laws that really matter are the one's that help Rich people keep their money, everything else is secondary x(

On Edit: Damn typos :argh: