It might require amending the Constitution, but the United States should rein in the pardoning power of the president, the ...

A constitutional amendment seems appropriate — perhaps a supplement to Article II, Section 2, stipulating that a pardon, to ...

On the final day of his presidency, Joe Biden issued preemptive pardons to close family members and adversaries of President ...

Trump's clemency for Jan. 6 rioters and Biden's reprieve for family represent merely the latest chapters in an odd history of ...

Posts saying that a Judge Joseph Barron on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled pardons granted ...

In his final hours in office, President Joe Biden issued blanket preemptive pardons Monday to prominent government officials, the bipartisan January 6 th committee, and members of his own family, ...

In the last 24 hours of his presidency, Joe Biden issued presidential pardons to Dr. Anthony Fauci, Gen. Mark Milley and members of the congressional committee established to investigate the Jan. 6, ...

The recent flurry of presidential pardons from both former President Biden and President Trump has put a renewed focus on what the Constitution allows a president to do.

Inauguration Day began and ended with unusual pardons from two presidents that legal and democracy scholars say reflected a lack of faith in the justice system, just as Donald Trump entered office.

The most famous example is Gerald Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon, who never fully acknowledged his role in Watergate. Then there was George H.W. Bush’s decision to pardon Casper Weinberger ...