Just dropped · Trial Balloon · Ep. 195
Shake Up
At her Senate confirmation hearings for the Supreme Court, Judge Amy Coney Barrett would not say whether she believed President Trump should be able to pardon himself as president.
Barrett said that question had never been litigated and thus called for “legal analysis” about the scope of the pardon power.
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