Ford may have stopped Nixon indictments, but Nixon wasn't even indicted before Ford could pardon him. Why not?
Ford may have stopped Nixon indictments, but Nixon wasn't even indicted before Ford could pardon him. Why not?
You mean with impeachment? Because he resigned.
You seen to have answered your own question.
Who knows what kind of deals were cut behind closed doors back then!
For the sake of our nation a lot of things were agreed to it appears before he resigned. Kind of a plea deal with other parties to the events.
But Ford had the authority even without an indictment and even without a request from Nixon. One of the nice perks of the office.
- Was Ford's pardon of Nixon legal? Does the President have the right to "pardon" an individual prior to adjudication of a particular set of charges?
- Obama deserves a severe punishment for repeating Richard Nixon's Water Gate Scandal. The only reason Nixon didn't get a? Harsh punishment is because he resigned & the next POTUS Gerald Ford Pardoned him in 1974 Trump Declassified a memo that shows Obama did something that was the same thing or worse then Richard Nixon's Water-gate Scandal
- Is Christine Ford like one of those celebrity stalkers. She has imagined a whole history with Kavanaugh but has never even met him? I think Brad Pitt had a woman swear she was married to him secretly for 10 years.,… Ford seems like the same kind of of case
- How long before Trump gives Christy Ford a full and free pardon? She was badly used by the Democrats - - as a victim who's been victimized again, she deserves a chance to walk away from the whole episode