U.S. presidents have the authority to grant clemency, which includes both pardons and commutations. A pardon relieves a person of some or all of the consequences of a criminal conviction ...

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 ...

Senator King asks for the factual basis for the nominee recommending a pardon for Edward Snowden. Senator King asks for the factual basis for the nominee recommending a pardon for Edward Snowden.

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.

Among those pardons were likely at least 11 Long Islanders. “This is a big one,” Trump said when he signed the 1,500-person pardon Jan. 20. “We hope they come out tonight.” The pardon came ...

Senate Democratic Leaders on January 6 Pardons and Federal Grants Freeze Senate Democratic Leaders on January 6 Pardons and Federal Grants Freeze Javascript must be enabled in order to access C ...

(Francis Chung / Politico via AP Images) President Donald Trump’s obscene and unconscionable blanket pardon of the 1,600 rioters who sought to overturn the 2020 election has properly sparked ...

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 ...

In his final days in office, President Joe Biden decided to pardon the innocent — people who committed no known crimes — including former Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., former U.S. Capitol Police ...

Vice President Vance on Sunday defended President Trump’s decision to issue a blanket pardon for nearly all of those who were charged with crimes related to the riot at the Capitol on January 6, 2021 ...