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Presidential pardons
Also — what exactly constitutes a pardon?
Had he been prosecuted by the Trump administration, he could have been accused of at least three offenses
Historically they have been quite sparingly used
The president’s ability to issue mass pardons is essentially a royal prerogative to change the law and court decisions
Fourteen-thousand petitions, 94 pardons — and Jared Kushner’s father just happens to get one. But Manafort’s pardon is worse
Some of the names smack of the Washington insider-trading that Trump has decried
