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In this episode of Up+Adam, legal analyst and best-selling author Jeffrey Toobin joins Adam Montiel for a deep dive into one of the most controversial and consequential powers in American politics—the presidential pardon. With insights from his new book, The Pardon: The Politics of Presidential Mercy, Toobin explores historic pardons, the political weight behind them, and the ethical dilemmas they create.
Was Ford’s pardon of Nixon a mistake? How shady was Biden to pardon his whole friggin family? What about Trump pardoning violent Jan 6 rioters? Should the Supreme Court be able to challenge pardons? And how do recent controversial pardons shape the future of democracy? A compelling conversation with one of the sharpest legal minds in media.
Get The Pardon: The Politics of Presidential Mercy here: Amazon
Follow Jeffrey Toobin’s work at The New York Times
Twitter/X: @JeffreyToobin
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