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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Senator Leahy asks if Barrett agrees that nobody is above the law.

Barrett: "I agree that no one is above the law."

When Leahy follows up on whether presidents can self-pardon, Barrett punts & says she will not offer a view.

Leahy: "I find your answers somewhat incompatible."[/quote]

She followed the Ginsburg rule on legal hypothetical.  Try keeping up.[/quote]

[b]The idea that no man is above the law in the US is not a hypothetical.

The fact that you and Judge Barrett seem to think so is sad and pathetic.[/b]
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Well now you're just misrepresenting what happened. She clearly said no man is above the law.  The legal issue of self-pardon is unresolved and could come before the Court.  The legal question is whether the Law (here, the Constitution) actually permits a President to pardon himself.  There are excellent arguments that allowing a self-pardon is not consistent with the Constitutional scheme established that no one is above the law; the converse argument is that the Constitution's only express limit is except in cases of impeachment.  Keep up.[/quote]

It may be an open legal question, but it is self-evident that a president cannot pardon himself. Period. That would make him a king with respect to crimes. That is fundamental to the US Constitution and the Federalist Papers that preceded it.[/quote]

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