pardons

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  2/20/2023
  

  Ford's Pardon of Nixon and Leads Americans to Doubt Accountability, Democracy

  by Garrett M. Graff

  Democracy won't be secure unless those who hold positions of power can be assured of being held to account if they break the law or abuse the public's trust. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/18/2020
  

  Susan B. Anthony was Arrested for Voting when Women Couldn’t. Now Trump will Pardon Her

  Historian Ann Gordon, who has edited the papers of Susan B. Anthony, says that Trump's pardon is an especially misguided example of today's politicians trying to use Anthony's legacy for their own purposes.   

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• SOURCE: The Bulwark
  7/14/2020
  

  Presidential Pardons and the Spirit of Clemency

  by Ron Radosh

  It is difficult to imagine, in these divided and troubling days, that our nation once had a conservative Republican president who believed that a socialist like Debs was just an American citizen with whom he disagreed, not an enemy who ought to be destroyed. 

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• 12/8/19
  

  A President Ready to Pardon

  by Harlow Giles Unger

  President Trump was far from first to issue controversial military pardons.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/21/19
  

  ‘The President himself may be guilty’: Why pardons were hotly debated by the Founding Fathers

  The Mueller report raised the issue the Constitution’s framers feared in 1787: Abuse of presidential power.

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• 7-11-18
  

  Are Ranchers Out West Really Oppressed by a Federal Government in League with Environmentalists?

  by Keith Makoto Woodhouse

  That’s what Trump’s pardon of the Hammonds implies. It’s wildly simplistic.

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  6-21-18
  

  President Trump Is Looking for Suggestions for Pardons

  So Time Magazine asked 7 historians for their thoughts. Who else besides Jack Johnson should get a pardon?

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  8-29-17
  

  How President Trump's Pardon of Joe Arpaio Breaks With White House History

  The idea of a leader forgiving the crimes of citizens has deep roots.

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• 8-31-17
  

  To This German Historian, the Implications of Trump’s Pardon of Sheriff Arpaio Are Ominous

  by Richard E. Frankel

  The message Trump is sending with his pardon of such a man.

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• SOURCE: Informed Comment
  7-23-17
  

  Top Five Rogues Pardoned by Presidents; will Trump try to be 6th?

  by Juan Cole

  And no the president can’t pardon himself or Nixon would have been first in line.

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• SOURCE: Newsweek
  7-24-17
  

  No President Has Pardoned Himself, But Governors and A Drunk Mayor Have

  Those gubernatorial cases could provide a precedent if Trump chooses to pardon himself.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  7-22-17
  

  Can the President Be Indicted?

  A long-hidden legal memo says yes.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  7-22-17
  

  Trump Says He Has ‘Complete Power’ to Pardon

  He won't use that power now, he says, but reserves the right to use it.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  7-22-17
  

  Trump’s Attack on Russia Inquiry Is From Familiar Playbook: The Clintons’

  The president’s strategy for navigating the inquiry is adopted from the Clintons’ approach to the Whitewater and Lewinsky investigations.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  7-21-17
  

  Why Trump and Mueller aren't Clinton and Starr

  by Julian Zelizer

  This comparison misses something pretty fundamental. Starr was working under the independent counsel law that Congress passed in 1978. So Clinton couldn't fire him.

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• 12-16-16
  

  Don’t bet on Obama Pardoning Snowden or Anybody Else You May Have Heard of

  by Jeffrey Crouch

  But he’s broken new ground in commuting the sentences of crack cocaine users. It’s one legacy Trump can’t overturn.

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• 11-20-16
  

  5 Steps Obama Can Take to Thwart Trump and Advance the Liberal Agenda

  by Donald Johnson

  Obama may be on his way out, but like John Adams, there’s a lot a president can do in his final days in office.

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• Why Pardoning Nixon Wasn't Good for America

  by Elizabeth Holtzman

  If Watergate is a story of accountability, President Gerald Ford’s pardon of Nixon is a story of presidential immunity.

• SOURCE: AP
  5-4-13
  

  Work ahead for Scottsboro Boys pardons

  Though the Alabama Legislature has cleared the way for posthumous pardons of the Scottsboro Boys, much work — from legal documents to public hearings — remains before the names of the nine black teens wrongly convicted more than 80 years ago are officially cleared.The Scottsboro Boys were convicted by all-white juries of raping two white women on a train in Alabama in 1931. All but the youngest were sentenced to death, even though one of the women recanted her story. All eventually got out of prison. Only one received a pardon before he died.The case became a symbol of the tragedies wrought by racial injustice. It inspired songs, books and films. A Broadway musical was staged in 2010, the same year Washington opened a museum dedicated to the case. The Scottsboro Boys' appeals resulted in U.S. Supreme Court decisions that criminal defendants are entitled to effective counsel and that blacks can't be systematically excluded from criminal juries....

• SOURCE: NYT
  12-1-09
  

  Historian David Reynolds says Obama should pardon John Brown

  [David S. Reynolds, a professor at the CUNY Graduate Center, is the author of “John Brown, Abolitionist” and “Waking Giant: America in the Age of Jackson.”] IT’S important for Americans to recognize our national heroes, even those who have been despised by history. Take John Brown. Today is the 150th anniversary of Brown’s hanging — the grim punishment for his raid weeks earlier on Harpers Ferry, Va. With a small band of abolitionists, Brown had seized the federal arsen