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Trump pardons raise ethical questions

President Trump is planning to pardon a man sentenced to tax fraud whose mother raised millions of dollars for Trump’s campaigns.

Here & Now‘s Robin Young speaks with Kim Wehle, who is a professor at the University of Baltimore Law School and a former assistant U.S. attorney in Washington D.C. She’s the author of  “Pardon Power: How The Pardon System Works— And Why.”

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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