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Joe W

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> Under Lewis v. United States, an 1892 Supreme Court decision which formed the basis for Rule 43, Trump would be required to attend every minute of his trial.

The high court held in Lewis that a “leading principle that pervades the entire law of criminal procedure” is that once an individual is indicted “nothing shall be done in the absence of the prisoner… in felonies it is not in the power of the prisoner, either by himself or his counsel, to waive the right to be personally present during the trial.”

> Indeed, it’s entirely possible that Trump pardoned himself during his last days in office but made no public disclosure. He might have done this in a written document that he alone holds. Trump might also assert that, as with his claims that he can declassify national security documents by just thinking it in his mind, that he issued a mental self-pardon.

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