Pardon for Scooter Libby?

This blog features a series of regularly updated, brief essays regarding the possible presidential pardon of "Scooter" Libby with an emphasis on history, law and empirical research. The creator is ProfessorP.S. Ruckman, Jr., author of the forthcoming book, Pardon Me, Mr. President: Adventures in Crime, Politics and Mercy .

Monday, August 27, 2007

McCain on Libby

John McCain is out and about promoting his new book, Hard Call: Great Decisions and the Extraordinary People Who Made Them. In this article on the promotional process, the New Yorker observes:

President Bush’s commuting of Scooter Libby’s sentence, he said, amounted to dodging a tough decision: “I’m very reluctant to second-guess, but I have to say I would have pardoned him or not pardoned him.”
Developing.