John Feerick was quoted in the National Law Journal about the presidential pardon power.
Michael Cohen, the former lawyer and friend of President Donald Trump who pleaded guilty Tuesday in a hush-money scheme, would not accept a pardon from Trump if offered, according to Cohen’s lawyer Lanny Davis.
But there may be a hitch: it is not clear that the beneficiary of a presidential pardon can refuse.
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Fordham University School of Law professor John Feerick, who wrote a 1975 article on the subject, said Wednesday, “If a president makes a decision to grant a pardon, I have a hard time with the proposition that a citizen affected by the pardon could decline it.”.
