A lot has been written lately about Presidential pardon power. While many of us know its origins, we don’t know or at least give much thought to its implications. Article II, Section 2 ...

President Donald Trump's pardons of the Jan. 6 defendants and two D.C. police officers convicted in the death of Karon Hylton-Brown have many people asking questions about the president's pardon ...

And yet, the power of the presidential pardon, based on the embrace of the concepts of mercy and amnesty, essentially guarantees that, in fact, a select few are actually not held accountable for ...

Now-former President Joe Biden and President Donald Trump ended and began their respective terms by issuing numerous pardons. The United States founders envisioned a narrow scope for the presidential ...

It is tiresome, but not surprising, that the polarized commentary in the days since the blizzard of pardons and clemencies issued back-to-back by Presidents Biden and Trump has focused on which ...

A commutation, which reduces or removes a sentence but does not imply innocence, is not the same as a pardon, which releases a person from punishment and expresses the president's forgiveness.

Lawmakers at the state and federal levels are responding to President Joe Biden’s record presidential pardon spree – as more than 3,000 people found their sentences commuted or pardoned. The pardons, ...

The unprecedented use of pardons by former President Biden on his last day in office coupled with President Trump’s sweeping pardon of violent Jan. 6 offenders on his first has sparked renewed ...

However, later on Monday, one of Trump’s first presidential acts was to grant a sweeping pardon to rioters who entered the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, including those who violently attacked police.

(Francis Chung / Politico via AP Images) President Donald Trump’s obscene and unconscionable blanket pardon of the 1,600 rioters who sought to overturn the 2020 election has properly sparked ...

In the final hours of his presidency, Joe Biden issued blanket pardons to several people to protect them from politically-motivated prosecutions. Recipients included members of his family like his ...

The U.S. Constitution gives presidents the power to grant pardons and commutations for federal crimes. This unique, unchecked power was meant to be used sparingly, as a last resort to correct ...