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How can Congress protect the Special Counsel without violating the Constitution? Yale’s Akhil Reed Amar explains

By Capital Center for Law & Policy on July 20, 2018

Posted in Capital Contributions, Policy Change

amar_akhi — Akhil Reed Amar, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University

The U.S. Senate is considering two pieces of legislation that would increase protections for Special Counsel Robert Mueller should they become law. The two bills, S. 1735 by Senators Graham (R – South Carolina) and Booker (D – New Jersey) and S. 1741 by Senators Tillis (R – North Carolina) and Coons (D – Delaware),…

State law can trump the President’s pardon power

By Leslie Gielow Jacobs on November 2, 2017

Posted in Policy Change

With the federal indictments of former Trump campaign officials, the President’s pardon power – which he has tweeted about and used, to exonerate Maricopa County sheriff Joe Arpaio – is again in the news. While questions exist as to the scope of the President’s power, like whether he can pardon himself,…

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How can Congress protect the Special Counsel without violating the Constitution? Yale’s Akhil Reed Amar explains

State law can trump the President’s pardon power

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