So now, John Conyers is going to start an investigation. He’s all aflutter that the president executed his customers both already in granting clemency. It wasn’t always that way, however. After Bill Clinton used that power to give blanket clemency to Marc Rich, among others, Conyers rose in defense of the presidential use of Clemency…
“Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong opposition to what is clearly a politically motivated and totally senseless resolution. We are a Nation of laws, and if any matter is abundantly clear by our Constitution, it is that the President has the sole and unitary power to grant clemency. Is there any Member that does not understand that? Every President has the sole and unitary power to grant clemency… Now the reason that he has the power to grant clemency is that it is that the President is uniquely positioned to consider the law and the facts that apply in each request for clemency.” – Rep. John Conyers (D) 1999
BBCT: who seems amused by the turn-about of Conyers and by the obvious partisanship by the Clintons:
The word “hypocritical” doesn’t even begin to cover this two-faced grandstanding by the Democrats. Stunning. They can’t even keep their rhetoric straight year to year.
Indeed; Just so.
