Sentence examples for abuse of the pardoning from inspiring English sources

Anger over Bill Clinton's abuse of the pardoning process mounted yesterday, as well it should.

But with his outrageous abuse of the pardoning power, Mr. Clinton has thrust all of us, including his wife, into new territory.

James Madison himself described impeachment as the proper response to abuse of the pardon power.

But his threatened, and now actual, abuse of the pardon power underscores the flaws of this approach.

In the Virginia ratification debates, James Madison said that abuse of the pardon power would be an impeachable offense.

In the interest of limiting future presidential abuse of the pardon (news article, Feb. 13), Congress should consider restricting the pardon power to a president's first term.

Result: the most flagrant abuse of the presidential pardon power in U.S. history.

The hearing yesterday before the House Committee on Government Reform made it clearer than ever that President Clinton's decision to pardon Marc Rich, the fugitive commodities trader, was an inexcusable abuse of the president's absolute clemency power.

It was an abuse of the badge.

But there is one power left -- the power of the pardon -- that could, if it's abused, create a controversy that both the president and the public could live without.

I was harshly critical of the pardon.