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Supreme Court Kicks Off Term With Oral Arguments in Five Cases

Constitutional Law Reporter

Abu Zubaydah is seeking to depose two CIA contractors who allegedly supervised his “enhanced interrogation” at secret CIA dark sites in Poland. The post Supreme Court Kicks Off Term With Oral Arguments in Five Cases appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter. detention facility in the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba.

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Yes, Trump Can Pardon Himself But He Should Not Do So

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One of the longest standing debates in constitutional law is dismissed as ill-informed by some of the same experts. After host Lawrence O’Donnell said he believed a president could give himself a pardon, Tribe proclaimed such a view is “incoherent and incompatible” as a constitutional matter.