He can’t pardon her for violations of state criminal laws.
Arkansas has an interest in some of her crimes.
The Constitution provides thatBut there is no penalty stipulated for violating the prohibition against corruption. Perhaps she should have been sued over the Clinton Foundation, and forced either to give up any input into how the Foundation worked - or, better, remove her from her post as SoS. Coulda, shoulda . . .
- Article 1 Section 9:
- No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States: and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state
But the states could pass laws in response to the foundation scandal; I (futilley) wrote my Repub state legislator to urge that violator of that constitutional ban should not be allowed on the ballot in my state. If the purple states or even most of them, had passed that perfectly unexceptionable law Hillary could not have been nominated by a major party.