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Comment by ceejayoz

11 hours ago

President immunity as laid out by SCOTUS clearly covers pardons.

Including "I'll pardon you and everyone down the chain if you do a war crime" promises.

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terminalshort  9 hours ago

No it doesn't because the president always had absolute power to pardon.

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