Supreme Court Passes Up Pardon Case

[Rose Siding]

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court refused Monday to consider whether a presidential pardon completely clears a person's past, restoring an individual's right to vote, have weapons or practice law.

Justices rejected an appeal from William A. Borders Jr., a former criminal defense attorney who was convicted of conspiracy more than two decades ago in a Miami racketeering case.

Borders thought his record was cleared when he received a pardon on President Clinton's final day in office in 2001. But an appeals court said he could not get back his license to practice law in Washington.

Borders' lawyers told justices that a lower court "imposed draconian restrictions on the president's pardon power, potentially rendering the exercise of that power a purely symbolic act."

http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-scotus-presidential-pardons,0,5903402.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines

I guess all one of those pardons is good for is a job in the Bush administration.

[Gman]

1. But of course it's ok to pardon Cuban terrorists that blow up

jet airliners and kill everyone aboard and then let the guy live with impunity and without remorse in Florida.

[Judi Lynn]

2. Isn't that the truth?

The Miami City Commisioners even named a day for this terrorist, Orlando Bosch.

Unbelievably dirty.