Hey folks, welcome to the Dark Horse podcast. I have the distinct honor and pleasure of sitting

with my good friend Robert P. George today. He is the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at

Princeton. He is also the director of the James Madison program there. He teaches in the area

of the philosophy of law, constitutional law, and moral and political philosophy.

Robbie George, welcome to Dark Horse.

I'd be back with you. Thank you. Thank you very much.

All right. There are a number of topics I'm hoping to talk with you about, and I have, frankly, the topics have

just built up over the course of many months. The one I want to start with, because in some

sense, I think it is the biggest gap in the public's understanding of where we've landed,

is the status of pardons. Obviously, there were a great many

pardons issued at the end of the Biden administration, and Trump has pardoned some people

on his way in. I have opinions, suspicions, concerns, but frankly, I'm no expert in this area, and I would

love to hear what you're seeing.

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