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

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 ...

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

“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 ...

A snippy article in The New York Times this past weekend — sorry, an unusually snippy article in The New York Times this past ...

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 ...