Bill
12-07-2008, 08:10 PM
This is kinda interesting - a NY rep has entered a bill to reform the presidential pardon process, starting with Bush.
The bill contains a requirement that the next attorney general prosecute the Bush admin members.
It probably won't pass.
http://www.democrats.com/nadler-pardon-resolution
From metafilter: http://www.metafilter.com/77206/Begging-Your-Pardon
Representative Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) introduced a bill (http://www.house.gov/list/press/ny08_nadler/PreEmptPardons_112108.html) that would reform the presidential pardon process (http://igs.berkeley.edu/library/pardon.html). Specifically, that the current president be stripped of his power to pardon members of his own administration, and that "the next Attorney General of the United States appoint an independent counsel to investigate, and, where appropriate, prosecute illegal acts by senior officials of the administration of President George W. Bush." (http://www.democrats.com/nadler-pardon-resolution)
The bill contains a requirement that the next attorney general prosecute the Bush admin members.
It probably won't pass.
http://www.democrats.com/nadler-pardon-resolution
From metafilter: http://www.metafilter.com/77206/Begging-Your-Pardon
Representative Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) introduced a bill (http://www.house.gov/list/press/ny08_nadler/PreEmptPardons_112108.html) that would reform the presidential pardon process (http://igs.berkeley.edu/library/pardon.html). Specifically, that the current president be stripped of his power to pardon members of his own administration, and that "the next Attorney General of the United States appoint an independent counsel to investigate, and, where appropriate, prosecute illegal acts by senior officials of the administration of President George W. Bush." (http://www.democrats.com/nadler-pardon-resolution)