The Politics of Presidential Mercy,” Jeffrey Toobin, a CNN legal commentator and contributing writer for the New York Times’s ...

I do hereby grant unconditional pardons to all United States persons for those offenses against the United States which such persons may have ...

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 ...

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 ...

Gerald Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon is now not even among the worst 1,500 in history. President Donald Trump’s blithe act of forgiveness for more than 1,500 defendants involved in the Jan. 6 ...

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 ...

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 ...