Community | November 24, 2008 | 7 comments

Can George W. Bush 'self-pardon' himself?

source: http://www.alternet.org/rights/108317/

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There's no definitive legal consensus on whether a president can pardon himself. But Bush may well give the theorists an answer.

Charlotte Dennett promised that, if she won her race for attorney general of Vermont in the recent election, she would prosecute George W. Bush for the murder of 4,000 American soldiers and more than 100,000 Iraqi civilians after he left office.

Unfortunately, Dennett did not become Vermont's attorney general. But it is possible (perhaps very possible) that one or more of our other 49 state attorneys general will take up that case after Jan. 20. Hopefully, that AG will appoint -- as Dennett promised to do --famed criminal attorney Vincent Bugliosi (author of The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder) as special prosecutor.

So does he have a way out?
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7 comments // Can George W. Bush 'self-pardon' himself?

  • DreSandoval
  • jimmyp
  • jessnectar
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      jessnectar  

    • He has a home in Paraguay (spelling) with its own watersoure and everything... and they don't extradite. So... if he goes there after he leaves office, which I think is highly likely, nothing will ever happen to this terrible man, unless we're lucky.

      But it's not just luck we need. We need action!

    • 3 years ago
  • pokesmot
  • Yoshi1
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      Yoshi1  

    • "He can simply pardon Cheney (and everyone else) and immediately resign. Cheney then becomes president and pardons him. Short, sweet, and -- after consulting with an attorney -- perfectly legal."

      I can't believe there is a loop hole like that to allow the president to pardon himself from crimes against humanity. If only we had impeached him earlier...

    • 3 years ago
  • cybexg
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      cybexg  

    • Just curious,

      You do know that a Presidential pardon is only valid for federal offenses? A truly driven group could still try to prosecute under any number of various state offenses.

    • 3 years ago
  • pokesmot
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      pokesmot  

    • However, there will be no prosecution or trial of George Bush -- or Dick Cheney, or Donald Rumsfeld, or Condoleezza Rice, or any of the others who deliberately deceived America into a war that should never have been waged -- if Bush decides to pardon not only his accomplices in crime but also himself.

    • 3 years ago
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