Melissa Murray: ‘The President’s Power to Pardon Is Pretty Expansive ... With Regard to Federal Crimes’

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Murray: “The president’s. power to pardon is pretty expansive, at least with regard to federal crimes. So if there are members of the administration who have committed crimes that are crimes on the state level, the president does not have the authority to pardon those individuals, although he’s claimed in other contexts that he does have that power. I’m here to tell him, as the author of the us constitution, I know annotated and comprehensive guide. He does not. But the federal pardon power really is quite broad. And we saw that you can have a preemptive pardon. This is what President Biden did last year with his son, Hunter Biden. Not only was he pardoned for the gun crime for which he was convicted, but the president, then President Biden, also pardoned him for a”