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  • July 2008

    • USA Track Official Urges Bush: Don't Pardon Jones

      New York Daily News  |  Jul 22, 08 6:00 PM CDT

      USA Track Official Urges Bush: Don't Pardon Jones

      (Newser) - The head of the US track and field program urged President Bush today not to pardon disgraced sprinter Marion Jones, the Daily News reports. Doing so would send a "horrible message" to young fans and to the international community getting ready to watch the Olympics, said Douglas Logan in an open letter to Bush. Jones is serving a 6-month sentence but has asked the president to spring her before her September release. More »

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      steroids  • track and field  • Marion Jones  • sports doping  • presidential pardon

    • Requests for Pardons Flood White House

      New York Times  |  Jul 19, 08 11:33 AM CDT

      Requests for Pardons Flood White House

      (Newser) - President Bush is nearing the end of his term, and felons are coming out of the woodwork in historic numbers to ask for pardons and reduced sentences, the New York Times reports. It is not unusual for there to be a spike in pardons granted by a president in his final months in office: Half of Bill Clinton’s 459 pardons happened in his last three months. More »

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      George W. Bush  • Bill Clinton  • conviction  • Marion Jones  • felony  • Martha Stewart  • presidential pardon  • commutation  • clemency

  • July 2007

    • Sarkozy Dumps Bastille Day Pardons

      Reuters  |  Jul 8, 07 2:17 PM CDT

      Sarkozy Dumps Bastille Day Pardons

      (Newser) - They won't be celebrating Bastille Day in French prisons this year: Nicolas Sarkozy, the country's new law-and-order president, has declined to grant the traditional mass pardons, as his two predecessors did every year. The pardons—3,500 last year alone—have been used as a means of easing overcrowded French prisons. More »

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      France  • Nicolas Sarkozy  • prison  • presidential pardon

    • Bush, Cheney Should Quit Over Scooter

      MSNBC  |  Jul 4, 07 6:40 AM CDT

      Bush, Cheney Should Quit Over Scooter

      (Newser) - MSNBC's Keith Olbermann came out swinging last night, demanding the resignation of both the president and VP—"two men who are now perilous to our democracy." Drawing on both John Wayne and James Madison, the anchor donned his commentator hat to contend that commuting Scooter Libby's sentence was the final straw in a string of baldly partisan actions. More »

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      George W. Bush  • Dick Cheney  • politics  • vice president  • resignation  • democracy  • Lewis Scooter Libby  • president  • presidential politics  • partisanship  • government  • Bush impeachment  • presidential pardon  • commutation

  • June 2007

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