Since the president's power to pardon is unconditional and unlimited he cannot commit obstruction of justice by pardoning someone - Paul Manafort or Joe Arpaio, for example.
Since the president's power to fire anyone in the justice department is unconditional and unlimited he cannot commit obstruction of justice by firing someone - James Comey or Robert Mueller, for instance.
Did Gerald Ford obstruct justice?
Time for a novel interpretation of the law or the constitution?
Update, 11242017.
The power to pardon is, expressly and by its nature, a power to lawfully obstruct justice.
Just that very thing, and only that, is what it is for.
Not so the power to fire underlings, use of which to obstruct justice is criminal.
So far as I can see, the only way a president can obstruct justice lawfully, without committing a crime, is by way of the power to pardon.
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