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Pardons & Clemency blog
Pardon Power Questions Answered, From Washington to Ex parte GarlandPlain answers to what people ask about presidential clemency: the text, the cases from 1866 and 1915, famous uses, and what the power cannot reach.Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon and paid for it at the ballot boxFord ended the Watergate story with one signature and lost votes for it, and the conservative case is that the country was worth the price.