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DelMarVa's Premier Source for News, Opinion, Analysis, and Human Interest Contact Publisher Joe Albero at alberobutzo@wmconnect.com or 410-430-5349
3 comments:
GOOD LOGIC!
That's not how that works. That's not how any of that works.
June 1, 2018 at 1:23 PM:
A president has absolute power to pardon anyone convicted of federal crimes. That's exactly how the Constitution works. Try checking out our history, if you are too young to remember it. Gerald Ford became President without ever receiving one vote by any American. He was appointed by Nixon when Spiro Agnew, one of Maryland's crooked Governors, resigned from the Vice presidency as part of a plea bargain for his crimes while he was Governor. Then Gerald Ford pardoned the Nixon, the same man that appointed him to be President. And Ford appointed his own Vice President, Nelson Rockefeller, to serve with him. Gerald Ford is the only President that held the office without ever winning an election. Both Ford and Rockefeller were never elected. The scenario mentioned in the post is absolutely feasible....and LEGAL! Three principles here. 1) The vice President assumes the Presidency automatically, if the President cannot fulfill his duties. 2) The president has the absolute power to appoint his vice president, if the vice president leaves office, for any reason, prior to the end of their term in office. 3) And the president has the absolute power to pardon anyone convicted of a federal crime. All three powers are guaranteed by the Constitution, and needs no one's approval or oversight. Our constitution does not even have any provisions to keep a president from pardoning himself, but he has to do it before he is actually impeached, like before the Senate votes for impeachment, and while he still has the constitutional pardon power. As in Nixon's case, Gerald Ford pardoned Nixon for ANY crimes he MAY HAVE committed while in office, whether he was charged or convicted. It was a blanket pardon. Such is the power of a sitting President.
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