Government,
Constitutional Law
Aug. 31, 2017
The president’s pardon power: all over the map
President Donald Trump most certainly did not invent the dubious pardon.
James Attridge
Law Ofc of James Attridge
270 Divisadero St #3
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Phone: (415) 552-3088
Email: jattridge@attridgelaw.com
U Denver School of Law
James is an attorney and mediator in San Francisco. He is writing a book about presidential legal careers.
Horace Lurton was a bright lad, energetic and industrious. It was no small wonder that he’d be promoted to sergeant not long after enlisting in the Confederate Army. After his capture he escaped, and joined Morgan’s Raiders, a band of rebels that sacked union infrastructure in Ohio and Indiana. Depending on how you look at it, they fell somewhere between al-Qaeda and Hogan’s Heroes. Lurton was captured again and this time was imprisoned on an island on Lake Michigan f...
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