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February 16, 2014

Executive Action?: You ain't see nothing yet. Remember....

THERE IS NO LIMIT ON THE PARDON POWER.

Posted by gerardvanderleun at February 16, 2014 8:44 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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But there is a limit to what the taxpayers can pay for the inevitable result of that power. Someone once said you can have a welfare state or open borders but you cannot have both.

Posted by: GoneWithTheWind at February 16, 2014 12:08 PM

Mumia might as well start packing and scheduling speaking gigs now, 'cause given how shameless Clinton was with his pardons, there's no way Obama isn't trying to give himself a "legacy" with his.

Posted by: Umbriel at February 16, 2014 12:50 PM

That would be particularly effective if the real criminals of this administration came to justice, which we've seen as not bloody likely.

But yes, the mind reels (that which isn't already benumbed) with the possibilities, and Mumia is probably at the top of the list

Posted by: Darkwater at February 16, 2014 12:57 PM

Look for the Chelsea Manning free to be she crossgender travesty show live on cable soon.

JWM

Posted by: jwm at February 16, 2014 1:24 PM

If I were president I would do whatever I wanted. Then, when Congress impeached me I would just give myself a pardon. There is nothing that say's a president cannot pardon himself.

Posted by: edaddy at February 16, 2014 2:30 PM

Yikes. I sense a confluence of rope, lampposts and the half breed faggot of dubious provenance on the throne and toadying grifters running the place.

I'm good with that. Let's start a rope fund. Send all yer cash contributions to me, haw haw. What did the puny one say, I can do anything I want?
Cracks me up.

Posted by: chasmatic at February 16, 2014 3:02 PM

Mumia Abu-Jamal was convicted in a Pennsylvania court for committing a crime under Pennsylvania law. The U.S. president's power to pardon extends only to offenses under federal law.

Posted by: ELC at February 16, 2014 4:38 PM

"The U.S. president's power to pardon extends only to offenses under federal law."

I don't think 0bama gives a shit about that. He's already done plenty of things he doesn't have the power to do.

Posted by: pfsm at February 16, 2014 4:49 PM

Thank God Bin Laden is dead.

Posted by: Scott M at February 17, 2014 12:41 AM

Mumia Abu-Jamal is incarcerated in State Correctional Institution Mahanoy in Frackville, Pennsylvania, and is, therefore, in the custody of the PA Department of Corrections.

Posted by: ELC at February 17, 2014 4:11 PM

"There is nothing that say's a president cannot pardon himself." Indeed, the president could pardon himself. But not in case of impeachment: that case is, indeed, explicitly and specifically prohibited by the federal constitution.

"The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have power to Grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment."

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