Can Trump Pardon Himself? Kavanaugh Won't Say
By ALANA ABRAMSON 12:50 PM EDT
Judge Brett Kavanaugh declined to answer two questions from Democratic senators related to presidential investigations during his confirmation hearing — if a president should comply with a subpoena and if he has the ability to self-pardon — saying both were hypothetical ...
“The question of self-pardons is something I’ve never analyzed. It’s a question I have not written about. It’s a question, therefore, that’s a hypothetical question that I cannot begin to answer in this context.” In practice, a president’s Constitutional power to pardon is quite broad, but legal experts indicate that a presidential self-pardon would violate a Nixon-era legal principle ...
http://time.com/5387414/kavanaugh-president-subpoena/
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even if kavanaugh thought, and eventually would decide, that a president can't self-pardon (unlike kavanaugh, i'm willing to explore hypotheticals -- even improbable ones!) he can't actually say that at this point because donnie would probably pull his nomination and replace him with someone who thinks otherwise!
in reality, of course, i think donnie's already found someone in kavanaugh who fully supports the notion that a president should basically be a despotic dictator, at least if it's a republican....
i'm just saying that even if that weren't the case, he couldn't honestly answer such a straightforward question because donnie has so screwed up the whole process.
