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 ...

The pardon power of the American president is close to absolute. And most presidents have been careful not to abuse the privilege. Now the abuse floodgates have been opened. What’s pouring ...

Today, the adage might more accurately read, “Do the crime, and a pardon will come in time.” During his first day back in the White House, President Trump pardoned, commuted the prison ...

Jack Gruber USA Today file photo In President Joe Biden’s administration’s final days, we witnessed egregious and unprecedented abuses of the presidential pardon and commutation powers.

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A letter writer wrote of Dr. Anthony Fauci: “If he accepts the pardon, then he is acknowledging wrongdoing.” If Fauci accepts the pardon, he admits he understands the potential consequences ...

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President Donald Trump signs an executive order pardoning about 1,500 defendants charged in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol in the Oval Office of the White House, Jan. 20 in Washington ...

A commutation, which reduces or removes a sentence but does not imply innocence, is not the same as a pardon, which releases a person from punishment and expresses the president's forgiveness.

Presidential pardons began with the George Washington, who pardoned those who participated in the violence known as the Whiskey Rebellion. Long before Jack Sparrow, there was the Caribbean pirate ...

On Jan. 20, as he left the White House, President Joe Biden granted pardons to 25,000 individuals, offering official forgiveness for their crimes. Among those pardoned was criminal justice ...