Robert A. Levy: The US needs to rein in presidential pardon power
Pardon power is almost unbounded — excluding only state crimes, civil liability, future crimes and crimes by the president ...
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Nixon’s official acts against his enemies list led to a bipartisan impeachment effort
Its purpose was, in the immortal words of President Richard Nixon’s White House ... The wiretap never produced any evidence against Halperin, but Nixon continued it even after Halperin resigned ...
Lawrence: Trump could not finish his first week as president ‘without violating the law’
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell describes how Donald Trump’s late-night purge of 18 independent inspectors general violates a law ...
The Chronicle22d
Richard Nixon, the Blue Devil: The making of the only Duke alumnus to become president of the United States
even prouder than the day Richard became vice president.” Richard Milhous Nixon, Law School ‘37, is the only U.S. president Duke has produced in its century. “Few came so far, so fast ...
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Nixon paved the way for Trump’s "new standard" of inaugural fundraising
The president ... Richard Nixon. While nearly half a century separates their tenures, both openly solicited large financial contributions from private industries, wielded their presidential power ...
The Financial Times11d
Richard Nixon’s third term on trade starts today
Specifically, he’s a fan of William McKinley, president from 1897 to 1901 ... Doug reckons this makes Trump more like Richard Nixon (similarly irascible with questionable ethics, though that ...