[EVO X]

Article II, Section 2 provides:

[The President] ... shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment.

He gets the power back if is acquitted is the way I read it. If the house doesn’t send the articles to the senate, is he impeached? We’ll find out in a few..

[damper99]

The meaning is that he can’t pardon someone that is impeached...else he could pardon himself and impeachment would never be effective against the president.

[noexcuses]

shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment

This means offenses except impeachment. If a judge, for instance, is impeached, the president doesn't have the power to pardon that judge.

[Cboldt]

LOL. All that means is he can’t unimpeach. He can override a COURT imposing a criminal sanction, but he cannot overide Congress imposing an impeachment sanction.

[Lean-Right]

“except in cases of impeachment.”
That doesn’t mean if the president is impeached
that he can’t pardon. It means if anyone is
impeached, they can’t be pardoned by the
president.