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Donald Trump handed out “get out of jail free” cards to some questionable characters as president, but a new court case is testing the limits of those pardons. A federal appeals court is currently considering whether a pardon Trump gave in 2020 to Republican political operative Jesse Benton should have prevented a jury from hearing about his previous election crimes before convicting him of new ones, and the issue hinges on the unusual manner the former president handed them out, reported The Daily Beast. Benton is arguing that his pardon “should have made his first scheme essentially vanish,”…

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