Pardon Controversies and Limits with Helen Bollwerk

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