Opinion by Jennifer Rubin: “Running for president won’t help those cases go away.”
would have had no inhibition about committing any crime and no need to hope for pardons by a successor. in 2018 that it’s not even a close call despite punditry declaring the plausibility of self-pardons.
“[I]f a president could grant a pardon to himself, he might unlawfully refuse to leave office if convicted by the Senate,” Bobbitt wrote. “Here it is useful to recall James Wilson’s reminder at the Constitutional Convention: ‘if [the President] be himself a party to the guilt he can be impeached and prosecuted.”argument in favor of self-pardon , Trump cannothimself a pardon unless the pardon comes from someone else.
Trump’s notion that he can avoid prosecution by winning an election has another obvious flaw: No president has the ability to pardon himself or anyone else for state crimes. Though he might imagine that he can slip through the
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