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The following is a list of the 75 pardons and 3 commutations by President George H. W. Bush. The list is organized by the date on which President George H. W. Bush granted the pardon or commutation. This list is a subset of the list of people pardoned by a United States president.
The pardon powers of the president are outlined in Article Two of the United States Constitution (Section 2, Clause 1), which provides: . The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each ...
The president can issue a reprieve, commuting a criminal sentence, lessening its severity, its duration, or both while leaving a record of the conviction in place. Additionally, the president can make a pardon conditional, or vacate a conviction while leaving parts of the sentence in place, like the payment of fines or restitution. [1] [2 ...
Office of the Pardon Attorney, accessed Dec. 4, Pardons Granted by President George H. W. Bush (1989-1993) Office of the Pardon Attorney, accessed Dec. 4, Help Me Choose
Presidential pardons have always been a point of controversy in the United States but some president’s decisions, ... George H. W. Bush. Controversially, Bush pardoned the former secretary of ...
Pages in category "People pardoned by George H. W. Bush" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Trump later granted Libby a full pardon. In 1992, Bush's father, President George H.W. Bush, pardoned Caspar Weinberger, the former Secretary of Defense, and five others, absolving them from any ...
President Geralld R. Ford's broad federal pardon of former president Richard M. Nixon in 1974 for "all offenses against the United States which he, Richard Nixon, has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 20, 1969 through August 9, 1974" is a notable example of a fixed-period federal pardon that came ...