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    A Supreme Court Case Could Liberate Trump to Pardon His Associates

    <em>Gamble v. United States</em> isn’t related to the Russia investigation. But the outcome—which one senior Republican senator has tried to influence—could still have consequences for the probe.&nbsp;&nbsp;
    by Natasha Bertrand Sep 25, 2018 3 minutes
    Source: Mike Segar / AP

    A key Republican senator has quietly weighed in on an upcoming Supreme Court case that could have important consequences for Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.

    The Utah lawmaker Orrin Hatch, who sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee, earlier this month in , a case that will consider whether the dual-sovereignty doctrine should be put to rest. The 150-year-old exception to the Fifth Amendment’s double-jeopardy clause allows state and federal courts to prosecute the same person for the same criminal offense. According to the brief

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