[stockpirate]

As POTUS Hillary could pardon herself

[MomwithHope]

Could you verify that?

[MomwithHope]

from the Constitution -
"he shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment."
The language is pretty loose. No president has ever tried it. Why didn't Bill Clinton do it before he was impeached? A pardon can be challenged and if it went to the supreme court right now they couldn't trust the court to uphold the pardon. Maybe that is why they are still pushing for the new SCOTUS appointment.

[MortMan]

That may or may not be true. The pardon power is virtually unlimited, but the power to blanket-pardon oneself may be a bridge too far to be acceptable to the DC cabal. From section two of the Constitution:

...and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.

The problem would likely be that pardoning oneself is an explicit admission of wrongdoing, and may be politically unacceptable. There is no actual constitutional restriction against it - probably because such self-serving would have been unimaginable at the time (because one's image was tied irrevocably to one's honesty).