Scope and Limitations

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1. Does the President’s ordinary pardoning authority itself confer the legislative power to repeal the criminal statute fo…
2. A pardon expressly remits the specified criminal punishment and expressly states that it does not restore suffrage or t…
3. A convict receives a valid pardon based on mercy, not a finding of innocence. He argues that this proves no offense was…
4. A former public employee receives a valid pardon expressly restoring the relevant civil and political rights. She satis…
5. A pardon validly forgives a final criminal punishment on grounds of mercy. In a separate proceeding lawfully requiring …
6. A pardon recipient asserts that executive clemency is equivalent to Congress repealing the criminal statute for all per…
7. A grant of pardon remits a principal penalty but expressly withholds restoration of suffrage and the right to hold publ…
8. A person pardoned on grounds of mercy insists that the pardon is conclusive proof the criminal act never happened. Expl…