Trump’s Pardon Power Isn’t as Absolute as He Thinks The president believes that he has a free and unencumbered hand to overrule the federal judiciary. But the courts have been quietly checking ...

History confirms that the Constitution’s location of the pardon power is significant. The president must make the decisions, and the courts can hold pardons void if the decisions are made by others.

Instead of administering the pardon power evenhandedly with a regular process that is available equally to all, he is rewarding his partisan allies.

In 2013, Donald Trump shared the D.C. establishment view of Snowden, calling him a "spy who should be executed." In 2015, ...

The exchange has been a coder, a promoter and an early adopter for World Liberty Financial’s stablecoin, people familiar with ...

President Trump has exercised the pardon power in ways that have defied custom and surprised many. He pardoned all of the Jan. 6 rioters. He has sometimes bypassed the traditional Department of ...

President Donald Trump has pardoned P.G. Sittenfeld, the former Cincinnati councilman convicted of bribery. What is a presidential pardon? What to know.

Trump has bucked the trend of previous presidents, who have typically issued most of their acts of clemency during their final months in office.

NPR's Steve Inskeep discusses the history of presidential pardons Rachel Barkow, Professor of Law at New York University.

NPR's Steve Inskeep discusses the history of presidential pardons Rachel Barkow, Professor of Law at New York University.

NPR's Steve Inskeep discusses the history of presidential pardons Rachel Barkow, Professor of Law at New York University.

In 2017, President Donald Trump insisted that his power to pardon was “complete”—a claim consistent with his generally absolutist views of the office’s powers, and one also inherited from ...