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 ...
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 ...
(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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
who has called Snowden a “traitor.” Trump has enthusiastically wielded his pardon Sharpie, but one name so far has failed to cross his desk. For years, supporters of Snowden have urged ...
Former Trump attorney Michael Cohen is demanding President Biden pardon him like he pardoned his son Hunter before President-elect Donald Trump can take office. Cohen discussed his efforts to ...
A Long Island federal judge has issued an opinion highlighting the “careless execution” of presidential pardon power which has now commuted the sentence of a convicted sex trafficker as part ...
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 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 ...
A day that began with the outgoing president’s pardon of lawmakers and his own family ended with the incoming president’s pardon of supporters who attacked the U.S. Capitol WASHINGTON -- A day ...
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 ...