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

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

One thing we saw lots of this week as power switched from one political party to the other was presidential pardons.

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, ...

During the dismal days that followed Watergate and the resignation of President Richard Nixon, there was a dark-humored joke that made the rounds. It went something like this: As Nixon was making his ...

Pardon is defined as “to officially say that someone who is guilty of a crime will be allowed to go free and not be punished.” And according to that Facebook post, if you are innocent you don’t need a ...

Pardons were flying all over Washington last week like a flock of birds, or airplanes during peak hours at Reagan airport.

President Gerald Ford granted her an unconditional pardon. The bombastic owner of the New York Yankees was convicted and fined, but not imprisoned, for making illegal contributions to Nixon’s ...

Brian Sicknick. Jeffrey Smith. Howard Liebengood. All three police officers died after defending the Capitol from assault on Jan. 6, 2021. Another 150 officers were injured by attackers who wielded ...

For example, Gerald Ford’s preemptive pardon of Richard Nixon was for “all offenses against the United States which he, Richard Nixon, has committed or may have committed” from Jan. 20 ...