Hot Topics Last Week:
Arpaio Pardon: If you missed it, this piece by Patterico announced that Trump Pardons Joe Arpaio. … Jay, noted the marketing chops of Trump in this piece as The President Timed Arpaio Pardon for Ratings!…
Talk about having to choose between the lesser of two evils.
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R., Calif.) — described rather understatedly in their piece as an “iconoclast” — has approached the Trump Administration with an offer from WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange with a...
Also, as pointed out in the Bloomberg piece, Trump has looked at the power to pardon. … Trump himself has tweeted that everyone agrees the U.S. president has “complete power to pardon.” … Some of those kinds of executive moves have been well studied, including Gerald Ford’s swift pardon of Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton…
The decision marks a judicial check on the legal question of how far a pardon from the President extends. … “The power to pardon is an executive prerogative of mercy, not of judicial recordkeeping,” Bolton wrote in the decision. … Certainly, it is within the President of the United State’s authority to pardon whomever he pleases whenever he chooses.…
Hillary Clinton’s emails, and sources suggest that indictments are coming, there will be those who suggest that Barack Obama should pardon … If she wins, though, it would be politically better for the Democrats if Obama chose not to give out that pardon. … So the best interests of the Democrats are served by there being no pardon.…
her or let her pardon herself. … A presidential pardon could short circuit some of this maneuvering. … A presidential pardon could ratify that assessment.
But what if a “smoking gun” eventually emerged?…
presidential campaign is complaining about the FBI’s release of records of the 15-year-old investigation into President Bill Clinton’s pardon … What bothered so many was that Bill Clinton’s Pardon Rich reeked of what today we call pay to play. … The New York Post contends that the pardon is still paying off big.…
The death row pardon was bestowed upon an Iowan named Tot, who was named the National Thanksgiving Turkey, and his fellow hatchling … Watch the clip of the pardon here:
This was President Obama’s eighth and final turkey pardoning.…
