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Comment by terminalshort

11 hours ago

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

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ceejayoz  1 hour ago

That was not so clear cut prior.

Openly selling a pardon for $20M would almost certainly have led to a prosecution for bribery. Not now!

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