And if it's the President who's making the decision, the prevailing Department of Justice interpretation is that is legal and binding. But If the President didn't make the decision, if it's a staffer who's making the decision, then it has no binding force. And so what I've encouraged both the White House and the Department of Justice, is to find those pardons, those executive orders, those statutes that were auto penned for which … (30:30–30:38)
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