A lot has been written lately about Presidential pardon power. While many of us know its origins, we don’t know or at least give much thought to its implications. Article II, Section 2 ...

Now-former President Joe Biden and President Donald Trump ended and began their respective terms by issuing numerous pardons. The United States founders envisioned a narrow scope for the presidential ...

President Donald Trump's pardons of the Jan. 6 defendants and two D.C. police officers convicted in the death of Karon Hylton-Brown have many people asking questions about the president's pardon ...

It is tiresome, but not surprising, that the polarized commentary in the days since the blizzard of pardons and clemencies issued back-to-back by Presidents Biden and Trump has focused on which ...

Monday’s pardons by two presidents violate the spirit of the pardon power and suggest the need for constitutional reform to eliminate presidential amnesties. After outgoing President Joe Biden ...

Trump’s massive pardon of those convicted of in the Jan. 6 insurrection on the Capitol pushes him to the top of the rankings for most pardons issued by a president in modern history. Getty ...

Lawmakers at the state and federal levels are responding to President Joe Biden’s record presidential pardon spree – as more than 3,000 people found their sentences commuted or pardoned.

Lawmakers at the state and federal levels are responding to President Joe Biden’s record presidential pardon spree – as more than 3,000 people found their sentences commuted or pardoned. The pardons, ...

A commutation, which reduces or removes a sentence but does not imply innocence, is not the same as a pardon, which releases a person from punishment and expresses the president's forgiveness.

Gerald Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon is now not even among the worst 1,500 in history. President Donald Trump’s blithe act of forgiveness for more than 1,500 defendants involved in the Jan. 6 ...

In the final hours of his presidency, Joe Biden issued blanket pardons to several people to protect them from politically-motivated prosecutions. Recipients included members of his family like his ...

Well, a lot. The President has issued a slew of pardons to people who have not been sentenced, who have not yet been convicted, who have not been indicted, who have not been charged, and who have ...