Introducing a New Blog: Pardon Power
Sure, I have been asked, "What happens after Libby is pardoned? Then what? What happens to the blog?" And, after giving it some thought, I have decided to prepare for the transition well in advance. This week, I have started a new blog PARDON POWER, which can now be found at http://pardonpower.com.
At the PARDON POWER blog, I am going to focus on news items related to both federal executive clemency and the exercise of clemency powers at the state level. This will allow me to broaden the discussion of presidential use of the pardon power to all previous administrations and delve even more into history and data. Mr. Libby will thus be a very small slice of the pie over there. The debate between Republican candidates Huckabee and Romney also made me more keenly aware of how little systematic analysis there is on pardons at the state level. It seems to me that we are in need of a blog that provides a more rich context in which to judge gubernatorial behavior.
In addition, I will open PARDON POWER to responses from readers, an idea that I never really got altogether comfortable with here. We'll just have to see how all of that goes.
So, if you have found this blog interesting, please consider stopping by PARDON POWER every now and then as well and, if you like, leave a comment.
best, P.S. Ruckman, Jr.
At the PARDON POWER blog, I am going to focus on news items related to both federal executive clemency and the exercise of clemency powers at the state level. This will allow me to broaden the discussion of presidential use of the pardon power to all previous administrations and delve even more into history and data. Mr. Libby will thus be a very small slice of the pie over there. The debate between Republican candidates Huckabee and Romney also made me more keenly aware of how little systematic analysis there is on pardons at the state level. It seems to me that we are in need of a blog that provides a more rich context in which to judge gubernatorial behavior.
In addition, I will open PARDON POWER to responses from readers, an idea that I never really got altogether comfortable with here. We'll just have to see how all of that goes.
So, if you have found this blog interesting, please consider stopping by PARDON POWER every now and then as well and, if you like, leave a comment.
best, P.S. Ruckman, Jr.
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