Longtime former pardon attorney Helen Bollwerk explains that while the pardon power is solely at the discretion of the president, there are also lots of procedural regulations and judicial precedents that influence who gets pardoned. This episode references: U.S. Constitution, Art. II, Sec. 2 https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/article-2/section-2/ 28 CFR § 1.1 - 1.11 https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/28/part-1 Ex parte Wells, 59 U.S. (18 How.) 307 (1855) https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/59/307/ Ex parte Garland, 71 U.S. (4 Wall.) 333 (1866) https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/71/333/ Carlesi v. New York, 233 U.S. 51 (1914) https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/233/51/ Burdick v. United States, 236 U.S. 79 (1915) https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/236/79/ Ex parte Grossman, 267 U.S. 87 (1925) https:// ...