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onenote

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1. Yes.

Reply to intrepidity (Original post)

Thu Dec 19, 2019, 09:41 AM

Dec 2019

All that the pardon language in the impeachment provision means is that a president can't use the pardon power to undo an impeachment.

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Can Impeached presidents still perform pardons? [View all] intrepidity Dec 2019 OP

Yes. onenote Dec 2019 #1

That's so oddly specific intrepidity Dec 2019 #3

It was carried over from British law onenote Dec 2019 #4

Ok, that makes sense intrepidity Dec 2019 #6

Yes. TwilightZone Dec 2019 #2

Yes. Unless he he is convicted and removed from office MineralMan Dec 2019 #5

An impeachment is merely an indictment LeftInTX Dec 2019 #7

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