MS - The Pardon

Part One:  Jeffrey Toobin discusses his new book "The Pardon:  The Politics of Presidential Mercy,"  in which he talks about why the founding fathers chose to give future presidents such authority - and what has typically motivated presidents to grant pardons.   The whole notion of presidential pardons gained new prominence in the closing hours of the Biden administration, when he issued a flurry of pardons (some to members of his own family) - as well as in the opening hours of the Trump administration when he pardoned the participants in the January 6th assault on the U.S. Capitol.   Part Two:  (for Women's History Month)   Sam Maggs discusses her book "Wonder Women:  25 Innovators, Inventors and Trailblazers who Changed History."   (from the archives)