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Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece. It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out. 1/2

The power the current president has always liked the most was the pardon power because it is constitutionally plenary; the founders never came up with a good alternative to “he can pardon like a king.” This was a mistake. But the precedent here is really Charles I and James II.

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