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Thread #117906 Message #2543413
Posted By: Richard Bridge
19-Jan-09 - 05:13 PM
Thread Name: BS: Bush pardons Border Patrol agents
Subject: RE: BS: Bush pardons Border Patrol agents
Why should the President have the power of pardon in his own dicretion? Is the concept of the rule of law no longer relevant in US jurisprudence? Or does the President have a modern variation of the divine right of kings?