The Conversation Comment: The power of pardon in a democracy We can debate whether a particular pardon is wise, but the practice itself is a basis for liberty. Sunday, December 8, 2024 1:30am ...

While I share Jeff Jacoby’s contempt for the pardons recently granted to several individuals (“Abolish the presidential pardon power,” Ideas, Jan. 12), the answer is not to eliminate or even ...

Although abuses of the pardon power increased over time, leading to limitations on it, the pardon power persisted through the American colonial period.

The executive has seized for itself the power to repeal federal law by way of mass terminations, in direct contravention of the Take Care Clause and our Constitution’s separation of powers.” Read ...

Joe Biden has pardoned more than 3,000 people during his final days in office. Other presidents have used the power to exonerate friends, family and supporters.

The abuse of the presidential pardon power has endangered the rule of law, writes Armstrong Williams.

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

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

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.