President Donald Trump has been flouting his pardon power during his second term, and a legal expert on Thursday revealed how the Supreme Court helped pave the way for Trump's actions.

Investigative researcher Lisa Graves, author of a book on the Supreme Court called "Without Precedent," wrote in a new essay for Substack that Chief Justice John Roberts seemingly gave Trump permission to use the pardon power as he pleased. The essay was published at a time when Trump is facing growing scrutiny for the pardons and commutations he's issued during his second term.

"Few people noticed that in the counter-constitutional ruling Chief Justice John Roberts orchestrated 17 months ago giving Donald Trump unprecedented immunity to commit crimes as president, Roberts included language reinforcing the pardon power, which was not at issue in that case," Graves wrote in the essay. "But perhaps Trump noticed what Roberts did for him in trying to clear the field of any potential constraints on the pardon power and its abuse."

Trump has pardoned several white collar criminals during his second term, each one just as eyebrow-raising as the others. For instance, he pardoned Changpeng Zhou, the former CEO of Binance, a cryptocurrency company that facilitated a $2 billion investment in Trump's World Liberty Financial stablecoin.

Trump also pardoned notorious fraudster David Gentile, who scammed thousands of investors out of more than $1.6 billion, according to the Department of Justice. Gentile was just 12 days into a seven-year sentence when Trump commuted it.

"To really make America great, we cannot be afraid to call out corruption, including the corruption and mayhem of the pardons under Trump, along with any other prior misuses of that power, so it can never be so abused again," Graves added.

Read the entire essay by clicking here.