Kim Wehle
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first heard Sep 2024
last heard 3 Dec
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So we haven't seen it in the context of a president election.
selling, selling favors.
But one of the big questions about the pardon power and this idea of official immunity, as Mario indicates, I mean, I think that immunity decision is so problematic for a number of reasons.
Don, think about it.
You know, the court says that pardons are core conduct.
Can't, can't even use a pardon in a, in a lawsuit.
But you can commit crimes with official power.
So if, you know, if you pull out a handgun and you,
You kill someone with your personal handgun.
And maybe that's unofficial.
If a president were to do that, like I know back in the horse and buggy days when there were muskets.
But these days, if it's a concern, it's still team six.
They're going to have to use official power, which means they're not going to do it unless they're somehow going to get protection.
How do you do that?
You pardon them.
So you take the, you take, if you have a miscreant Machiavellian president who,
who's willing to use the power of the office to commit crimes, and you really want to be effective at that, you've got to bulletproof and protect the people that are going to execute the official power.
How do you do that?
You do it with a pardon.
And I think this story that, you know, Mario's team has produced this letter just demonstrates that quid pro quo is,
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