9 Dec 2024 4:43 pm
proof/ ford pardoned him
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https://news.virginia.edu/content/uva-e ... gift-nixon
Former U.S. President Richard M. Nixon is synonymous with Watergate and corruption. The burglary of the Democratic headquarters in the Watergate Hotel, and the ensuing coverup, led to the 37th president’s historic resignation.Back then, according to Nixon expert Ken Hughes of the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs, there was no question in the White House, Congress or the Supreme Court that a former president could be prosecuted for crimes committed when he wielded the powers of the presidency. In fact, President Gerald R. Ford conceded as much when he pardoned his former boss.But what if the new Supreme Court standard had been in place in 1974? Would the recent Trump v. United States ruling declaring that a president enjoys “absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for acts within the scope of his exclusive authority” and “at least a presumptive immunity from criminal prosecution for a president’s acts within the outer perimeter of his official responsibility” have changed history?