[Cboldt]

-- Can a pResident like Carter erase treason? --

As a matter of law, yes. The president has unlimited and unilateral pardon power.

[Mouton]

Unfortunately you are correct about that...both G. Washington and Johnson after the Civil War have taken that course, one with a pardon and one with amnesty.

[Verginius Rufus]

It's unclear if a President can pardon himself.

So Obama has a vested interest in seeing to it that the next President is a Democrat.