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Presidential Powers

The legal storm clouds are gathering for Donald Trump as criminal investigations into his electoral campaign and people who worked for him start to reach the courts. If he and those around him face criminal convictions, potentially he could use his powers to pardon them, he could even pardon himself. But how has it come to pass that the President has so much power invested in him?

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