President Trump claimed Monday that he has the “absolute right” to pardon himself, but that goes against a still-active 1974 Justice Department memo that cites a “fundamental rule that no one may be a judge in his own case,” and thus means “the president cannot pardon himself.”

That memo was written by then-Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel Mary C. Lawton. A Justice Department official told the Washington Examiner on Monday that there are “no other published opinions [from the department] on this topic,” which means it’s still the prevailing view at the department.