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Re:Anthony Levandowski Pardoned by xxpor on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @11:31AM (#25848373)
That's not how common law systems work. Things like executive privilege, qualified immunity, the fighting words doctrine, are all essentially just made up by judges.
Re:Anthony Levandowski Pardoned by chipsa on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @03:26PM (#25851523)
Statutory law over-rides common law, however. If Congress passed a law explicitly overriding any of those, those would cease to exist.