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An Interview With Margaret Colgate Love

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The former U.S. Pardon Attorney in the Department of Justice has this interview with Marcia Coyle at the National Journal website.  Here are a few excerpts of this must-read interview:In the wake of President Bush's most recent pardons, The National Law Journal spoke with one of the nation's foremost authorities on the pardon process ? Margaret Colgate Love of the Law Office of Margaret Love in Washington. Love specializes in executive clemency and restoration of rights, sentencing and corrections policy, and legal and government ethics. She served as U.S. pardon attorney in the Department of Justice between 1990 and 1997. She currently directs the American Bar Association Commission on Effective Criminal Sanctions. NLJ: What do we know about how the framers envisioned the president's use of the pardon power? MCL: The most developed explanation comes from Alexander Hamilton in Federalist 74...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on November 26, 2008 (boomark / email).