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The Libby Commutation: Coincidence, or Conspiracy?

The President of the United States has the unrestrained Power of granting Pardons for Treason; which may be sometimes exercised to screen from punishment those whom he had secretly instigated to commit the Crime, & thereby prevent a Discovery of his own Guilt. -- George Mason (1725-1792), the "father of the Bill of Rights," noting his objection to presidential pardon powers in his first draft commentary on the Constitution of the United States he helped write