The origins of the pardon power in the United States Constitution can be found in English history, known previously as the “prerogative of mercy.” It first appeared during the reign of King ...

The English Parliament legally placed an absolute pardon power in the hands of the monarch in 1535 during the reign of King Henry VIII. In the centuries that followed, however, Parliament imposed ...

Former President Biden says he consciously decided to issue the pardon. But emails obtained by the New York Times show a ...

President Donald Trump’s use of the pardon power to keep allies out of prison has been unusually barefaced. His first pardon went to a prominent supporter, former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio.

In opposing the power of the pardon, Jeff Jacoby wants to throw away just the baby without considering the bathwater. The root problem is not pardons but rather the presidents who grant them.

Lost in today’s partisan volleys, though, is that a president doesn’t need to sign anything to dole out clemency.

Kimberly Wehle, a constitutional law expert at the University of Baltimore's School of Law, joins the Utterly Moderate Podcast to discuss the pardon system and the potential for its abuse.

The decision by President Joe Biden to pardon his son, Hunter, despite previously suggesting he would not do so, has reopened debate over the use of the presidential pardon. Hunter Biden will be ...

How the pardon power looms large in the current presidential election. Why Wehle believes the pardon power is necessary to retain. The constitutional limits of and possible reforms to the pardon.