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Tuesday, December 2, 2008 12:00 AM

Eric Holder, Jack Quinn and the Rich pardon

It's premature to criticize Obama for his establishment-soothing appointments. But it's just as premature to heap praise on him for those appointments.

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  • Tuesday, December 2, 2008 08:39 AM

    Actually, no...

    So it's more or less a given that anyone you pardon is guilty and convicted of something.

    From the wiki definition of presidential pardon:

    A presidential pardon may be granted at any time, however, and as when Ford pardoned Nixon, the pardoned person need not yet have been convicted or even formally charged with a crime.

    Make the pardonee walk a gauntlet of being beat with pantyhose filled with oranges?

    The most useful suggestion for pantyhose I've ever seen. Might be better applied, however, to UT trolls who pipe up without understanding the basic issues being discussed, let alone Glenn's actual topic.

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