Giuliani Must Part with His Mercedes

@#1

I wonder if fmr Mayor Giuliani is trying to delay until next January when he might get a pardon?

@#3 ... Can you get a presidential pardon for a civil suit and loss? ...

Good question.

I based my #2 on it being a Federal case.

But, as I have said before, I am not a lawyer.

Found this...

ArtII.S2.C1.3.1 Overview of Pardon Power
constitution.congress.gov

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The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.
[italics theirs]

The Constitution establishes the President's authority to grant clemency, encompassing not only pardons of individuals but several other forms of relief from criminal punishment as well.1 The power, which has historical roots in early English law,2 has been recognized by the Supreme Court as quite broad. In the 1886 case Ex parte Garland, the Court referred to the President's authority to pardon as "unlimited" except in cases of impeachment, extending to "every offence known to the law" and able to be exercised "either before legal proceedings are taken, or during their pendency, or after conviction and judgment."3 Much later, the Court wrote that the "broad power conferred" in the Constitution gives the President "plenary authority" to "'forgive' [a] convicted person in part or entirely, to reduce a penalty in terms of a specified number of years, or to alter it" with certain conditions.4

Despite the breadth of the President's authority under the Pardon Clause, the Constitution's text provides for at least two limits on the power: first, clemency may only be granted for "Offenses against the United States,"5 meaning that state criminal offenses and federal or state civil claims are not covered.6 Second, the President's clemency authority cannot be used "in Cases of impeachment."7 ...

@#5 ... Do you suppose that would include militias such as the proud boys, oath keepers etc? ...

[shrug]

@#7 ... He just thought the matter would go away or that his assets would not be located. ...

Yeah, I had thought that also.

But the court seems to be of a differing opinion.

So now my current opinion is: delay, delay, delay. Hoping for a pardon.

Yazoo - Good Times (1983)
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Lyrics excerpt...
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Sometimes I feel I'll never belong
I want to get there so bad but it's taking so long
Sometimes I feel like letting go
But when it comes right down to it baby, who wants to know? (No-one)
And I find (For a good time) I'm knocking for a good time (For a good time)
Now I find (For a good time) I'm knocking for a good time (For a good time)

Standing on the outside, I'm looking in trying to be heard, I don't know where to begin
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