Toobin couches his exploration of Gerald Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon within both the broader context of mounting ...

NORTH DAKOTA (KXNET) — This week saw the transfer of power from Joe Biden to Donald Trump, and with it, many things quickly changed about the shape of our country. One thing we saw lots of this ...

It might require amending the Constitution, but the United States should rein in the pardoning power of the president, the ...

The Politics of Presidential Mercy, by Jeffrey Toobin “When it comes to pardons, presidents are kings,” the legal journalist ...

The pardon power of the president is close to absolute. And most presidents, until Biden and Trump, have been careful not to ...

The possibility of a president’s pardoning himself for a crime is not precluded by the explicit language of the Constitution, and during the summer of 1974, some of President Richard M.

On the final day of his presidency, Joe Biden issued preemptive pardons to close family members and adversaries of President ...

After issuing a pardon to former President Richard Nixon, the Gerald Ford White House said that Nixon's acceptance of it was an admission of guilt in the Watergate affair. In Christian theology ...

Joe Biden’s preemptive pardons are a valid use of pardon power. But they break new ground as a shield for those the president seeks to protect, scholars say.

Think Jimmy Carter’s pardon of Vietnam-era draft evaders or Gerald Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon. The pardon power need not be so all encompassing. A more constrained version is available to ...