@perfect_blue said:
@Jacanuk: Can you then produce the specific amendment and section of the Consitution that says a President can pardon himself? If it’s so obvious you should easily be able to provide this information for everyone reading to see. The Supreme Court has never ruled on if a president can pardon himself.
You also haven’t linked or cited any legal experts. Why should anyone believe you that these “legal experts” even exist? Are you a liar? You haven’t provided any proof to any claim.
I haven’t lost anything, it’s you who is ignoring my argument lol. If a President has the power to pardon himself why didn’t Nixon? Your argument that he didn’t want to “abuse the power of the office” crumbles the second one realizes Nixon used that exact same time office to commit political crimes and spy on his enemies. So it’s pretty fair to think if he had the power to pardon himself he’d have done so.
Sure, let me do your job for you.
On the question of whether Trump has self-pardoning power, the weight of opinion appears to be with Giuliani—He can, but he shouldn't. UCal-Berkley law professor and former legal adviser to the Geoge W. Bush administration John Yoo speaks for the vast majority of scholars when he points out the Constitution grants the president virtually unlimited pardon power in Article II of the Constitution. The Constitution says the president can"grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment." That's it.
"President Trump can clearly pardon anyone — even himself — subject to the Mueller investigation," Professor Yoo writes.
Another former DOJ official, Andrew McCarthy, agrees with the legal consensus that a president can pardon himself, and goes even farther. He notes that Trump need not wait to be charged with a crime before issuing a pardon"
Mark Tushnet, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Harvard Law School
"The constitutional arguments about self-pardoning are ... complex, and no one should have strongly held views about the correct analysis," Tushnet said. "That said, my view is that the weight of the arguments lies in favor of finding that the president has the power to self-pardon, because of the president's power to 'take care that the laws be faithfully executed.' This gives the president a great deal of discretion about initiating and terminating investigations, coupled with the absence of express limitations on the pardon power (other than barring pardoning in cases of impeachment, which isn't, technically, a criminal proceeding). But, as almost everyone also acknowledges, exercising the power to self-pardon would almost certainly trigger sufficient public outrage to make impeachment a realistic possibility — or, put another way, exercising the power to self-pardon, if the president has it, would be extraordinarily politically unwise (ordinarily). But, again, we aren't in ordinary times, and perhaps a self-pardon wouldn't trigger that reaction in the present circumstances."
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