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One week from today, four years of rancor, distrust, and bitter political divisiveness will come to a head on Capitol Hill, as Congress meets to vote on the certification of Electoral votes to make Joe Biden the 46th president of the United States.
While only God knows what will transpire just outside, and no doubt across the country, there is far more at stake than who becomes the 46th president. As Fox News host, author, and Constitutional lawyer Mark Levin sees it, January 6, 2021, will be more about whether “our Constitution will hold” and “whether Congressional Republicans care” if it does.
Pardon me? A look at the broad, yet somewhat-murky clemency powers of a president
President Gerald Ford shakes hands with Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman, D-New York, in October 1974 in Washington, D.C., after Ford completed his testimony to a House judiciary subcommittee on his reasons for granting a pardon to former President Richard Nixon. Photo from Getty Images.
As a first-term Democratic Congresswoman from New York, Elizabeth Holtzman recalls being the only one willing to ask President Gerald Ford tough questions about the most controversial act of his administration.
One month to the day after becoming the first person ever to occupy the Oval Office without having been previously elected president or vice president of the United States, Ford generated a national outrage by issuing a full and unconditional pardon to his predecessor, Richard M. Nixon, for any and all crimes Nixon may have committed as president.