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    A Plan to Restructure (and Revive) Pardoning After Trump

    Margaret Colgate Love Fri, Feb 12, 2021, 10:08 AM
    The president should reaffirm the historically close relationship between the pardon power and the justice system, restructured so that each may once again usefully inform the other’s operation.
  • Jan. 6, 2021 Violence in the Capitol

    What’s Congress Doing in Response to the Capitol Assault (Besides Impeachment)?

    William Ford Fri, Feb 12, 2021, 12:33 PM
    An understandable focus on impeachment has obscured the breadth of work Congress has undertaken in other areas to respond to the Jan. 6 insurrection.
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    Expulsion, Exclusion, Disqualification, Impeachment, Pardons: How They Fit Together

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