Receiving a pardon is no doubt something that a person would receive with joy and gratitude. However, there can be a problem: Accepting a pardon does imply that you committed the crime for which you are being pardoned, right? If there were no crime committed, then the pardon wouldn’t make any sense.
Such is the problem in which Mrs. Clinton might well find herself. That she has another potential legal issue to contend with is certainly no surprise. In would be interesting to see just how much money the Clintons or their supporters have spent defending them all these decades. The figure must be staggering.
So with Obama in the waning days of his presidency handing out pardons with wild abandon, what of Hillary? More on page two.
She has not been charged, so he can’t pardon her. I hope they are waiting until Obama is out of office.
Thinking he skipped English class all together…wow.
Pardon?? She has not been charged yet
Wait—can a president really pardon someone who hasn’t even been charged with a crime?
Yep. In 1866, the Supreme Court ruled in Ex parte Garland that the pardon power “extends to every offence known to the law, and may be exercised at any time after its commission, either before legal proceedings are taken, or during their pendency, or after conviction and judgment.” (In that case, a former Confederate senator successfully petitioned the court to uphold a pardon that prevented him from being disbarred.) Generally speaking, once an act has been committed, the president can issue a pardon at any time—regardless of whether charges have even been filed.
She hasn’t been tried and convicted. She hasn’t even been arrested. He has no grounds to pardon her. Pardon her from what? This is why it has been so important to wait until after Trump’s innaugaration to make an attempt to go after her. Then obummer can’t help her.
How can he pardon her if she has not been charged yet?
Obama is also guilty of crimes that he committed in office against American people.
She hasn’t been charged. She hasn’t done anything she can’t be pardoned!
Maybe Congress will do away with this ridiculous amount of power by an elected representative of the people, this amount of power should be harnessed.
SORRY HE CANT PARDON HER? AS YET SHE HASNT BEEN CHARGED & TRIED IN A COURT! OUR MUSLIM TRAITOR PRESIDENT CANT HELP HER! AFTER TRUMP IS PRESIDENT SHE IS GONE FOREVER, THEN THEN OBAMA WILL BE ON THE HOT SEAT WITH A FRAUDULENT NON CERTIFIED BIRTH CERTIFICATE & SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER FROM A DEAD MAN! WAKE UP LIBERALS YOUR FRAUDULENT TREASONISTS ARE EXPOSED!