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Ben Wikler: “State law is beyond the pardon power of the president.”

Featuring: Ben Wikler, Democratic | Chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin

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Published | Video Starts at 08:34

And the thing about state courts is that if someone breaks the law in a state and they're convicted in the state, Trump can't pardon them. State law is beyond the pardon power of the president. So he's, yet again, he, he also has broken the law in another way, it seems to me. (08:34–08:38)

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Asserts that state law convictions cannot be pardoned by the President of the United States.

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