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Can a President Pardon Himself? Constitutional Ambiguity Meets Political Reality
The pardon power sits in Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution. Seventy-eight words. No explicit exceptions. No Supreme Court ruling on whether a president can use it on himself. Legal scholars spent decades treating it as a hypothetical. Then 2025 made it a serious conversation—again. Trump’s legal team floated the self-pardon option publicly in…
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DOJ Reverses Biden-Era Rule, Barring Veterans Affairs from Funding Most Abortion Procedures
In a move that dismantles a key pillar of the previous administration’s post-Dobbs strategy, the Department of Justice has issued a binding legal opinion barring the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) from funding abortion services. The decision, handed down by the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC), reverses a 2022 Biden-era directive, arguing that the agency…