Mr. Toobin is a contributing Opinion writer and the author of the forthcoming “The Pardon: The Politics of Presidential Mercy.” At a campaign event shortly before the November election ...

The pardon power — a relic of English monarchs that was adopted by America’s founders as a way to extend grace and mercy in exceptional circumstances — can’t be checked by Congress or the ...

Now Pamela Hemphill from Boise, Idaho, will decline the pardon that Trump offered her and other Jan. 6 convicts during the first hours of his second term, she told The Washington Post.