U.S. presidents have the constitutional power to exercise leniency toward people who have committed federal crimes.

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

The President...shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment. The power to pardon is one of the least limited powers ...

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images The presidential pardon authority is being abused so much that, to preserve the rule of federal law, it must be substantially restricted. The U.S. Constitution gives ...

Blagojevich was commuted after serving nearly eight of his 14-year sentence in February 2020, during President Trump's first ...

My partner, Lauren Ober, and I made the podcast We Live Here Now. The thing they had all been waiting for are the pardons that President Donald Trump delivered as promised “on day one.” ...

Pardons were flying all over Washington on Monday like a flock of birds, or airplanes during peak hours at Reagan airport. Joe Biden was first, issuing "pre-emptive" pardons to five members of his ...

On the latest episode of “Impromptu,” columnists Ruth Marcus, Dana Milbank and Jim Geraghty take stock of Day 1 of Trump 2.0, and discuss whether presidential pardons are getting out of hand.

President Donald Trump granted a pardon to Silk Road marketplace founder Ross Ulbricht, a promise he made to the cryptocurrency industry during his campaign.