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The question of presidential self-pardons was occasionally asked during Donald Trump’s first term, but after Monday’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling establishing that American presidents have absolute immunity from prosecution for “official” acts, legal experts believe that the answer might now be “yes.” Or, at least, “maybe.” “President Trump has suggested to aides he wants to pardon himself in the final days of his presidency, according to two people with knowledge of the discussions, a move that would mark one of the most extraordinary and untested uses of presidential power in American history,…

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