Sometimes presidents have pardoned famous or controversial figures, stirring up news stories and even Congressional hearings. And we ask the biggest pardon question of them all: can the president pardon himself?

This episode references:U.S. Constitution, Art. II, Sec. 2https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/article-2/section-2/

Congressional Report, Justice Undone: Clemency Decisions in the Clinton White House, May 14, 2002. [In Three Parts]

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CRPT-107hrpt454/pdf/CRPT-107hrpt454-vol1.pdf

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CRPT-107hrpt454/pdf/CRPT-107hrpt454-vol2.pdf

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CRPT-107hrpt454/pdf/CRPT-107hrpt454-vol3.pdf

Congressional Hearing, Use and Misuse of Presidential Clemency Power for Executive Branch Officials, July 11, 2007https://fas.org/irp/congress/2007_hr/clemency.pdf

28 CFR § 1.1 - 1.11https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/28/part-1

Presidential or Legislative Pardon of the President (August 5, 1974)

https://www.justice.gov/olc/opinion/presidential-or-legislative-pardon-president 

Helen Bollwerk worked as an attorney in the Justice Department Office of the Pardon Attorney