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Re:FBI Reopens Clinton E-Mail Probe Less Than Two Weeks Befo... by arzt on Friday October 28, 2016 @03:13PM (#12819652)
Is their a historical precedent for something like this? (ie sitting president pardons incoming president?)
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Re:FBI Reopens Clinton E-Mail Probe Less Than Two Weeks Befo... by AnimalMuppet on Friday October 28, 2016 @04:55PM (#12820599)
Not quite. There is precedent for the new president pardoning the outgoing president, though - Ford pardoned Nixon for anything and everything Nixon had done that was illegal during his term in office. That closed the book on Watergate, but it arguably cost Ford the election to Carter.
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Re:FBI Reopens Clinton E-Mail Probe Less Than Two Weeks Befo... by swissoak on Friday October 28, 2016 @03:23PM (#12819745)
I don't believe so, but we have plenty of shitty precedents with Obama's 8 years.
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