Welcome to episode 3 of the Charles C.W. Cook podcast. This is a surprise episode, a pop-up episode. Shocked even me. I hadn't planned to do this until Wednesday or Thursday. But I wrote a column on Friday that yielded a great deal of pushback. And in the course of

arguing about it on Twitter, I asked my interlocutor if he wanted to come on the show and debate it

there instead, much better for him. And he said yes. So that's what we're going to do also going to talk to jeff

blair about super tramp's breakfast in america album in the first color supplement part of the show

but before we get to all of that i'm pleased to say this show is now available on google podcast

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And now, an argument.

So on Friday, I wrote a piece at National Review complaining about the president.

Biden had made an announcement that he would be pardoning anyone who is currently in federal prison for mere marijuana possession. And I took exception to this, not because I think

that our marijuana laws are desirable. They're not. Not because I think anyone should be in prison for marijuana possession.

I don't, not even, in fact,

because I think that our drug laws generally at the federal level are constitutional.

I don't.

But because the laws in question are still on the books.

And while it is clear that the president has a pardon power,

while that pardon power is somewhat vaguely written,

and while the Supreme Court has ruled that the pardon power is non-justiciable,

there is a clear conflict here between the president's

authority to issue pardons and his responsibility under Article 2 to take care that the laws

be faithfully executed, because those laws have not been repealed. And I cannot see how a president

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