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President Trump has the authority to grant White House aides and family members legal immunity against federal prosecution. But there are two qualifications.

Can Trump pardon himself? A UC Hastings law professor weighs in FacebookTwitterEmail US President Donald Trump with Vice President Mike Pence, right, delivers remarks on the stock market during an unscheduled appearance in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, D.C on Nov. 24, 2020. (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images/TNS)Mandel Ngan / TNS President Trump has already issued pardons for nearly 50 people, including former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, former national security adviser Michael Flynn and others convicted of crimes following Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russi...

Dec 16, 2020 Most presidential pardons — indeed all pardons that President Donald Trump has issued — have been for specific crimes of which the subject of the pardon has already been charged and convicted. Yet, Trump, never one to be restrained by precedent, has let it be hinted that he might issue prophylactic pardons to relatives and colleagues who have neither been convicted nor charged with any crimes. And he might pardon himself. Can he do that? The short answer is yes. Here is the backstory. The pardoning power is expressly and exclusively granted to the president in the Constitutio...

Andrew P. Napolitano WASHINGTON — Most presidential pardons — indeed all pardons that President Donald Trump has issued — have been for specific crimes of which the subject of the pardon has already been charged and convicted. Yet, Trump, never one to be restrained by precedent, has let it be hinted that he might issue prophylactic pardons to relatives and colleagues who have neither been convicted nor charged with any crimes. And he might pardon himself. Can he do that? The short answer is yes. Here is the backstory. The pardoning power is expressly and exclusively granted to the presi...

Can President Trump issue pardons to relatives and colleagues who have neither been convicted nor charged with any crimes, including to himself?.