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Jedi Guy

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16. "Our history goes back to the Magna Carta..."
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 11:03 PM
2 hrs ago

The Magna Carta isn't the law of the land, though, so anything it has to say absolutely isn't relevant. The Constitution is, and the Constitution doesn't expressly say a President can't pardon himself. That being the case, he probably can even though it wasn't what the Framers envisioned.

It probably won't matter, anyway. As GJGCA pointed out upthread, all Trump has to do is pardon Vance, resign so Vance becomes President, and then accept a pardon from Vance. That sidesteps the self-pardon question entirely and is clearly Constitutional, though deeply cynical and abusive of the intent of the power to pardon.

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