Name: Trump so far not planning to pardon himself
Uploaded: 2021-01-20T18:30:45.000Z
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US President Donald Trump is preparing to issue more than 100 pardons and commutations on his final full day in office.

But one name not on the list as of Monday is his own.

That's according to a source familiar with the effort.

White House advisers have said Trump has privately debated with confidence on whether to take the extraordinary step of pardoning himself.

Some administration officials have cautioned Trump against because it would make him look guilty.

The source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Trump also does not plan to issue preemptive pardons for members of his family.

Many scholars have said a self pardon would be unconstitutional because it violates the basic principle that nobody should be the judge in his or her own case.

Others have argued that a self pardon is constitutional because the pardon power is very broadly worded in the constitution.

Trump, the only president in US history to be impeached twice, has been trying to head off a conviction in the Senate following the January 6th storming of the U.

The House of Representatives charged Trump last week with inciting violence against the government of the United States.

We're gonna walk down to the capital after he urged his supporters to fight the results of the election in a speech just before the capital attack.

The pardons are expected to be issued on Tuesday, a day before President elect Joe Biden's inauguration, which trump plants to skip.

 He leaves on Wednesday morning to begin his post presidency at his March a Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida His term at the White House officially ends at noon Wednesday as Biden is sworn in. 