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23 Jul 2008 10:34 am
Pre-Emptive Pardons
By Patrick Appel
Jacob Leibenluft looks at the extent of Bush's pardoning powers:
If someone hasn't yet been charged with a crime, how does the president know what to pardon them for? As in Nixon's case, President Bush could issue a pardon that applies generally to any crimes that may have been committed within a certain range of dates. More likely, a pardon could apply only to actions surrounding a single policy or place—say, the detention or interrogation of suspected al-Qaida members.
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