In 2016, President Obama pardoned Tator in a grand display of mercy, Obama spared

Tator from the ultimate punishment. Obama also spared Tator's alternative taught.

They were both turkeys presented to President Obama by the National

Turkey Federation, which has presented a turkey to every president of the United States

since 1947. Ronald Reagan was the first president to use the word pardon to spare the

presidential turkey and the first president Bush was the first to

formalize the event. It's kind of silly and I realize that and the source of a lot of grown-inducing jokes by the president especially President Obama who made a lot of dad jokes about it

No way I'm cutting this habit cold turkey

But the silliness does point to an actual

constitutional power every American president has and that's the pardon power.

So right now there are investigations into the ties between the Trump campaign and Russia.

There are reports that investigators are looking into former National Security Advisor Michael

Flynn and at Trump's son-in-law and advisor Jared Kushner, and now reports indicate that Trump himself is under investigation for

obstruction of justice related to his firing of FBI director James

Comi among other things. So one question that comes up around these issues is will

Trump use his presidential pardon power and how might he use it? Now I want to be

really clear here there have been no announcements or indications that Trump would use his pardon power in the investigations of his administration.

But what does the Constitution say he could do?

You're going to want to sit down for this. This is what Trump can

teach us about Khan Law, an ongoing series of indefinite length where our

favorite law professor Elizabeth Joe comes to my

house every week to teach us all a lesson about a Constitution that is being looked

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