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Nixon’s Justice Department warned that the president can’t pardon himself
“Under the fundamental rule that no one may be a judge in his own case”
Just days before President Richard Nixon resigned his office and left the White House in disgrace, a key office within the Justice Department determined that Nixon could not use his own pardon power in order to protect himself from prosecution.
“Under the fundamental rule that no one may be a judge in his own case,” acting Assistant Attorney General Mary Lawton wrote in a brief memo, “the President cannot pardon himself” ...
https://thinkprogress.org/nixons-ju...e-president-can-t-pardon-himself-f70228c8b9ef
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Ian Millhiser
Justice Editor, ThinkProgress. Author of Injustices: SCOTUS’ History of Comforting the Comfortable and Afflicting the Afflicted imillhiser@thinkprogress.org
Jul 21
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Nixon’s Justice Department warned that the president can’t pardon himself
“Under the fundamental rule that no one may be a judge in his own case”
Just days before President Richard Nixon resigned his office and left the White House in disgrace, a key office within the Justice Department determined that Nixon could not use his own pardon power in order to protect himself from prosecution.
“Under the fundamental rule that no one may be a judge in his own case,” acting Assistant Attorney General Mary Lawton wrote in a brief memo, “the President cannot pardon himself” ...
https://thinkprogress.org/nixons-ju...e-president-can-t-pardon-himself-f70228c8b9ef
CREDIT: AP Photo/File
Ian Millhiser
Justice Editor, ThinkProgress. Author of Injustices: SCOTUS’ History of Comforting the Comfortable and Afflicting the Afflicted imillhiser@thinkprogress.org
Jul 21
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