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By Asher Kaufman, Professor of History and Peace 91ÊÓÆµ, University of Notre Dame.

That reading of the pardon’s text is believable, said Derek Muller, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame, about the request Laiss’s lawyers were making. “Here you’ve got kind of a broad set of conduct and an undefined group of individuals who are protected,” Muller said in an interview. “It’s quite plausible to read this and suggest that anyone involved in voting for slates of presidential electors in 2020 has now been pardoned.”

“The situation on the ground in Ukraine continues to deteriorate, the military is having trouble with desertions ... and now Zelenskyy has a very big corruption scandal on his hands,” points out Michael Desch, an international affairs professor at the University of Notre Dame.

“It is not entirely clear whether the statute of limitations has in fact expired — lawyers will argue both sides — but for Comey there is at least a chance that the government will not be able to re-indict him,” Jennifer Mason McAward, a professor at the Notre Dame Law 91ÊÓÆµ, told The Independent.

The pair have analysed the political, economic and cultural rationales for any constitutional change in a book, , published by the Dublin-based Royal Irish Academy and the University of Notre Dame under their project Analysing and Researching Ireland, North and South (Arins).

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