Opinion: If we want the president to have the power to pardon nonviolent offenses, we must accept that the president is ...
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 ...
Meanwhile, a pardon, according to the DOJ, “should lessen the stigma arising from the conviction” and “is an expression of the President’s forgiveness and ordinarily is granted in recognition of the ...
The pardon recipients now join Mr. Trump himself ... They were tokens of gratitude, expressions of vengeance, payments for future consideration and acts of political provocation.