Word: pardoners
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Although the tapes arrangement may yet be challenged, the pardon is now history. Ford, in fact, still insisted that his decision was right, despite the outcry. But there were strong signs last week that, partly as a result of the pardon, Congress will not meekly accede to Nixon's request for some $850,000 in transition funds, as endorsed by Ford and urged by a compliant General Services Administration. GSA Administrator Arthur F. Sampson, a Nixon appointee who had never objected to any of the lavish Government-financed improvements to Nixon's San Clemente and Key Biscayne properties...
...charges or at least delay their trial because of all the adverse publicity generated by the furor over the Nixon pardon. Also as expected, Sirica denied the motions. There may be further appeals, but the trial is now scheduled to begin...
...still-unresolved question is how Nixon will be treated in that trial. He has been summoned as a defense witness by Ehrlichman, but could conceivably plead the Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination in that role. His lawyers could argue that, while federal prosecution has been banned by the pardon, state prosecution is still possible. That is highly unlikely and such a Nixon plea would be shaky, since the trial questions need not delve into any Nixon activities other than the cover-up conspiracy. Nixon could also be summoned as a prosecution witness and be granted specific immunity against...
...lawyers and political scientists who viewed the pardoning of Nixon as an arbitrary assault, however unintended, on basic principles of justice. By a vote of 347 to 169, the California State Bar Association denounced the pardon as violating the tenet "that all persons stand equal before the law" and claimed that it threatened to "undermine" the "American system of justice." Leaders of the City Bar Association of New York charged that Ford had acted "prematurely and unwisely" and bluntly urged him to "permit the administration of justice to proceed without further hindrance...
...pardon power, exercised by the President when federal law is involved and by Governors for state offenses, is commonplace in the U.S. The Justice Department gets some 1,000 applications for pardon each year. The department normally reviews each case, consults with the attorney who prosecuted the case and the judge who sentenced the offender, then recommends approval or denial to the President...