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Trump: I'll Just Pardon Myself!
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June 5, 2018
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President Trump started off his Monday by tweeting that he has the “absolute right” to pardon himself for any crime.
"As has been stated by numerous legal scholars, I have the absolute right to PARDON myself, but why would I do that when I have done nothing wrong? In the meantime, the never ending Witch Hunt, led by 13 very Angry and Conflicted Democrats (& others) continues into the mid-terms!"
On August 5, 1974, Mary Lawton, the Acting Assistant Attorney General, examined the question of whether the president can pardon himself. The president at the time was Richard Nixon.
“Under the fundamental rule that no one may be a judge in his own case, the President cannot pardon himself,” Lawton wrote.
Lawton’s analysis was analyzed last year by a trio of legal scholars for the Washington Post, including the White House Counsels for Presidents Obama and Bush. As they wrote:
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