The Future of Presidential Clemency Decisionmaking

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for invaluable comments on an earlier iteration of this article. I also want to thank the participants in the 2019 clemency symposium at the University of St. Thomas School of Law and the members of the University of St. Thomas Law Journal for helpful discussions and comments regarding the subjects addressed in this article. Any errors are mine. In the interest of full disclosure, I was one of the lawyers who represented the United States in two cases cited below: