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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 ...
Republican president George W. Bush pardoned, commuted, or rescinded the convictions of 200 people. [25] Among them were: José Compeán and Ignacio Ramos – Two US Border Patrol agents who wounded drug smuggler Osvaldo Aldrete Dávila on February 17, 2005, and tried to cover up the incident received commutation in 2009. [35]
Presidential pardons have long triggered controversy, with amnesty granted for everything from murder, piracy, espionage, treason and even conspiring to kidnap a U.S. president. But it is ...
Presidential pardons have always been a point of controversy in the United ... George H. W. Bush. Controversially, Bush pardoned the former secretary of defense Caspar Weinberger and five other ...
Biden’s 65 individual pardons so far falls below the 74 by President George H.W. Bush granted during his term from 1989 to 1993. ... But when former President George H.W. Bush pardoned former ...
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 ...
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 ...