Once upon a time, Amazon Music met audiobooks and listeners everywhere rejoiced.

Oh yeah.

Because now they could listen to one audiobook title a month from an enormous library of popular audiobook titles, including romanticity,

autobiographies, true crime, and more.

Suddenly listeners didn't mind sitting in traffic or even missing their

flight. Amazon Music Unlimited now includes audible. No way. Download the Amazon Music app now to start

listening. Terms apply. This is John Batchel, a conversation with colleague Richard Epstein of

the Kivitas Institute about the pardon power of the presidency.

I read that it is absolute, and yet Richard speaks to a clemency, pardon power,

before something has happened or without something happening, without a crime,

saying that that tests the limits of the law, is Richard Epstein to explain.

More of this later tonight.

It's not even clear that you could give a preemptive pardon.

It's supposed to be partners for offenses against the United States, right?

Well, if these guys haven't been charged with anything, what's the offense against the United States, right? Well, if these guys haven't been charged with anything,

what's the offense against the United States?

So the logic of the pardon power is if there's been a conviction

or at least a charge, then you know what you're talking about

and you can make a judgment one way or another.

But since this thing is completely unbridled

in terms of if it's covered by the pardon clause, nothing you could do about it.

People have a perfectly good idea of saying the pardon cause does not allow you to issue

...