How this unfettered clemency power came to be written into our Constitution and how, in spite of frequent abuse, it seems ...

The pardon power is a rare instance where our government has enshrined the quality of mercy. That's a virtue we should value ...

Payback and projection have long been two of President Trump’s touchstones. He settles scores in return for every perceived ...

The president’s habit of handing out pardons like party favors was a scandal in his first term. It’s worse now.

OPINION- A snippy article in The New York Times this past weekend — sorry, an unusually snippy article in The New York Times this past weekend — suggested that Trump is using his ...

“I conceive that the President ought not to have the power of pardoning, because he may frequently pardon crimes which were advised by himself,” George Mason, a notable outlier, presciently ...

The increased pardon activity has elevated public attention on pardon power. This article explores the history, scope, and limitations of the pardon power, and provides answers to some practical ...

This power of the President is not subject to legislative control.” Ditto, in Ex Parte Grossman (1925): “The executive can reprieve or pardon all offenses after their commission, either before ...

The pushback is raising profound, untested questions about the presidential pardon power itself: How can courts be sure what was in a president’s mind when he signed a pardon using broad, ambiguous ...

President Donald Trump’s return to power has created a stampede of white-collar criminals, Crypto figures, and convicted ...

In this case, the pardon power was a substitute (or autocratic workaround, Biden's critics charged) for death penalty abolition legislation that Biden promised during the 2020 campaign but that he ...