The pardon power is expansive, and also now a near-weekly tool to reward Trump’s political allies.But just last week, a federal court punctured the popular idea that the power is somehow immune ...

The pardon power developed for centuries among the English, prompting Chief Justice John Marshall to observe in 1833 that we must “adopt their principles respecting the operation and effect of a ...

The exchange has been a coder, a promoter and an early adopter for World Liberty Financial’s stablecoin, people familiar with ...

In 2013, Donald Trump shared the D.C. establishment view of Snowden, calling him a "spy who should be executed." In 2015, ...

One of the Trump family’s crypto ventures has received key behind-the-scenes help from the world’s largest digital-asset ...

President Donald Trump has pardoned P.G. Sittenfeld, the former Cincinnati councilman convicted of bribery. What is a presidential pardon? What to know.

Trump has taken an “unprecedented” approach to the pardon process by relying on the direct method to a novel degree, leaning on a team of “very different sorts of people” to hand out ...

Legal scholars are outspoken in their criticism of Trump’s use of the pardon power. Rachel Barkow, a law professor at N.Y.U., described Trump’s goals by email: ...

So that's an extremely unusual use of the pardon power, and it's one that really does prejudice the interests of people who have been victimized by crimes. Dana Taylor: ...

INSKEEP: Does there now need to be some kind of check on the president's pardon power? President Trump, in his first term, said, my power is absolute. He seems to have been upheld in that.