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Politics : The Clinton Crash - 1999 -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Louis Cornell who wrote (14)	12/13/1998 12:12:00 PM
From: TopAtty	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 48

I keep hearing from the pro-Clinton camp that he can and should be prosecuted in the criminal courts after he leaves office. My initial question is as follows:.. if the Constitution vests with in the President the power of granting a pardon to any person for any crime, what's to prevent this president, on his last day in office from issuing a pardon to himself and the First Lady for any and all crimes against the laws of the United States. A pardon does not have to be approved by anyone other than the President himself. Wouldnt this use (or misuse) of the pardon power place the man above the law in the absence of an impeachment?