NY lawmaker seeks to prevent Bush pardons of “cronies”
By Ken Herman | Friday, November 21, 2008, 03:24 PM
http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/washington/washington/entries/2008/11/21/ny_lawmaker_see.html
Here's the issue: "co-conspirators in the president’s unconstitutional policies, such as torture, illegal surveillance and curtailing of due process for defendants"
It's time to recover the USA's image as a leader in Human Rights. Blocking these pardons would be a good step.
By Ken Herman | Friday, November 21, 2008, 03:24 PM
http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/washington/washington/entries/2008/11/21/ny_lawmaker_see.html
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| Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-New York and chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties, has authored a resolution demanding that President Bush refrain from issuing “pre-emptive pardons of senior officials in his administration during the final 90 days of office.”
The resolution, Nadler says, is in response to Bush’s “widespread abuses of power and potentially criminal transgressions against our Constitution.” The goal, he says, is to prevent “undeserved pardons of officials who may have been co-conspirators in the president’s unconstitutional policies, such as torture, illegal surveillance and curtailing of due process for defendants.” “This resolution declares that we will not tolerate a last minute attempt by President Bush to shelter his cronies - cronies who may well be guilty of serious criminal offenses - from the full force of the law,” says Nadler |
Here's the issue: "co-conspirators in the president’s unconstitutional policies, such as torture, illegal surveillance and curtailing of due process for defendants"
It's time to recover the USA's image as a leader in Human Rights. Blocking these pardons would be a good step.
