Staff of Lawfare stop saying plainly unconstitutional things that simply haven’t happened before are “an open question under the constitution” challenge 2020-2021. https://twitter.com/benjaminwittes/status/1334095649898434562

A “self pardon” is (a) not a thing, (b) contrary to the definition of a pardon as something bestowed on someone else, (c) illegible to both the historical origins of the pardon power and the American revolution, and (d) so obviously destructive to the whole constitutional design

A president who can pardon himself would be literally above the law and able to engage in any heinous criminal conspiracy at all. He could sell off all the navy’s ships and pocket the cash or murder all the senators in the Capitol, pardon himself, and walk away.

It’s absurd to suggest the constitution may permit this simply on the basis that no one has been dick enough to try it.