Welcome back to Talking Feds, six part series of live episodes from Washington, D.C.

On the overall topic, After Muller challenges and prospects for U.S. Democratic institutions.

We are again here at Georgetown Law School thanks to the hospitality of our co-sponsor,

the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection.

In this episode is also sponsored by the American Constitution Society, the nation's leading

progressive legal organization.

Through its nationwide networks of over 200 student and lawyer chapters, ACS is dedicated

to defending the language and the spirit of the U.S. Constitution.

You can learn more at ACSLA.org.

We're focusing today on a topic that has been at the center of the disputes about executive

power and the president's imperial instincts, namely the pardon power.

We're going to discuss the values and purposes of the pardon power and then turn to an evaluation

of the Trump administration's employee of it.

And for this task, we have the ideal panel combining exceptional scholarship with deepest

practical experience.

Beginning with Robert Bauer, he is now the professor of the practice and the distinguished

scholar in residence at the NYU School of Law.

But he was formerly the White House Council, which as will hear plays a very special role

in the pardon process.

And had a private practice for many years that focused on national political campaigns.

Bob, thanks very much for joining us.

Thank you.

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