#POTUS: Absolute Pardon power and the Bidens..Richard Epstein, Civitas Institute, UT.
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🗓️ 14 December 2024
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| 1:06.0 | Epstein of the Kivitas Institute. He is a senior research fellow. This is a launch. Sometimes it's called a |
| 1:13.4 | soft launch. But around here, we launch. We don't characterize. And Richard will be with |
| 1:19.3 | this each week to expand on his thinking. We started with the administrative state. We're |
| 1:23.8 | now going to turn to what I have been told is an absolute constitutional power, |
| 1:29.5 | which is the pardon power of the presidency, and that it cannot be challenged. Is that correct, |
| 1:35.0 | Richard? We have about four minutes. What the power, it is absolutely, is a legal matter |
| 1:40.4 | impregnable as far as anybody can turn. And there are a lot of case law with it, but it's too |
| 1:45.9 | greater power. And so they have organized an office for pardons, which is essentially supposed to |
| 1:51.3 | review all these things and give recommendations to the president. And it's critical because |
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