03/02/2011
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"This wasn't a close call. It wasn't a hard call. It was really no call at all. What it was is essentially an effort to overturn our democracy dressed up in shabby legal clothing."
"I have to think they would decide you can't pardon yourself, along the lines of the Office of Legal Counsel opinion from the early 1970s."
"The Constitution, as our justices have written, is not a suicide pact."
"It would make you the judge in your own case. It would put you above the law."