The Glade 4.0

http://www.newsweek.com/2011/04/17/arno ... -trip.html

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But not even his politically savvy wife could save him from the fallout of his last-minute decision to reduce by nine years the 16-year voluntary-manslaughter sentence of Esteban Nuñez, who pleaded guilty to participating with three friends in the 2008 homicide of 22-year-old San Diego State University student Luis Santos. The dead man’s family, which received no advance warning of the governor’s decision, is suing to have the sentence restored. Young Nuñez happens to be the son of Schwarzenegger’s friend Fabian Nuñez, the former Democratic speaker of the state assembly.

“I understand people’s disappointments. I understand the parents’ anger. I would probably feel the same way,” Schwarzenegger tells me in his first public comment on the commutation, which he granted hours before leaving office, arguing that his friend’s son didn’t inflict the fatal wound. “My office definitely made a mistake in not notifying the parents beforehand … and I’m ultimately responsible.” But, Schwarzenegger adds, “I feel good about the decision … I happen to know the kid really well. I don’t apologize about it … There’s criticism out there. I think it’s just because of our working relationship and all that. It maybe was kind of saying, ‘That’s why he did it.’ Well, hello! I mean, of course you help a friend.”

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He did it to help a friend, not because of any sense of justice. He is getting pilloried on several news radio stations right now about this callous, corrupt behavior.

What do you guys think of it?

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

Impeachable.

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

Legally, I rather think you're wrong there. It's a governor's (or president's) prerogative to pardon or issue clemency wherever he has jurisdiction, without need for explanation.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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Pure unadulterated cronyism.

Can you Impeach someone after they have left office?

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

Indeed. But I don't believe (in this case) there's anything illegal about that. I think such things work very much like the Presidential Pardon...

http://people.howstuffworks.com/presidential-pardon.htm

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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pretty much this.

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Darksiege
Traveller, Calé, Whisperer
Lead me not into temptation; for I know a shortcut

Negative press is pretty much the only possible penalty for a governor granting clemency.

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Buckle your pants or they might fall down.

If this is even remembered in 3 weeks ill be impressed.

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A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ~ John Stuart Mill

Based on what?

It's within his powers.

On what grounds based on the actual documented laws of California is this Impeachable? Not on moral high ground, but on real laws that have been penned into the books?

And if the person has left office... what can really be done?

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Darksiege
Traveller, Calé, Whisperer
Lead me not into temptation; for I know a shortcut

Nevermind, inside joke.

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

Nice save.

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

Maybe it would have been better with an exclamation point. Or if I had shopped it into this:

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

I ask legitimately, I am not an expert of the law. Nor do I pretend to be. So it could have been as simple an answer as "california penal code xxx.xxx.xx subsection x"

But I do not want to deal with ideals, I want to deal with actual laws, as written.

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Darksiege
Traveller, Calé, Whisperer
Lead me not into temptation; for I know a shortcut