Russia gives Edward Snowden permanent residency

Re:Russia gives Edward Snowden permanent residency by jb1991 on Thursday October 22, 2020 @01:12PM (#24860390)

Completely false. Look at Nixon.

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Re:Russia gives Edward Snowden permanent residency by chrisco255 on Thursday October 22, 2020 @01:19PM (#24860471)

I stand corrected...pardon me.

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Re:Russia gives Edward Snowden permanent residency by mikestew on Thursday October 22, 2020 @01:36PM (#24860695)

Still time to delete that erroneous comment should you so choose. Be advised, now that there are replies, that it will show as "[deleted]".

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Re:Russia gives Edward Snowden permanent residency by lensi on Thursday October 22, 2020 @02:37PM (#24861629)

Yeah, just add an edit to the post.

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Re:Russia gives Edward Snowden permanent residency by buzzerbetrayed on Thursday October 22, 2020 @02:59PM (#24861938)

> pardon me.

Not until you go trial

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Re:Russia gives Edward Snowden permanent residency by shadowgovt on Thursday October 22, 2020 @01:35PM (#24860680)

Nobody's ever challenged Ford's pardon of Nixon.

It's actually real unclear what the legality of it would be if a subsequent President had tried to arrest him.

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Re:Russia gives Edward Snowden permanent residency by bdcravens on Thursday October 22, 2020 @02:27PM (#24861461)

It's been surmised that "resign and get pardoned" may happen again in our lifetimes.

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Re:Russia gives Edward Snowden permanent residency by jaywalk on Thursday October 22, 2020 @02:18PM (#24861325)

What makes you say it's unclear? It's considered settled, even though the Supreme Court has never had to rule on it.

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Re:Russia gives Edward Snowden permanent residency by dragonwriter on Thursday October 22, 2020 @08:22PM (#24864861)

The Supreme Court has previously found excuses to dodge the question of the validity of pre-charge pardons, it is very much an open issue.

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