Richard Blumenthal actually said...

"I think there is a really solid persuasive argument that in fact the Constitution doesn't permit the president to pardon himself."

"I would like to see that debate. I don't think there's any real rational or fact-based argument against it."

"the idea of the president pardoning himself or members of his family or cronies is really a legal atrocity that never would have been imaginable, certainly not to the founders."

"Brown vs. Board of Education, do you think it was correctly decided?"