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

One of the organizations that filed the lawsuit said that Trump’s executive orders have “been sweeping and ... The Supreme ...

In a recent new release touting his bill, McDaniel berated Biden for a “disgraceful abuse of executive power.” The release included links to news article about Biden’s pardons for relatives ...

Former President George W. Bush issued 200 pardons during his term. As a reminder, President Trump signed 220 executive orders during his first term and has now signed more than 40 in his current ...

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 Founders did not argue much about providing the executive the ability to pardon and grant clemency. Hamilton discussed it in Federalist 74. It’s one of the concepts borrowed from English ...

These types of executive pardons and sentence commutations have gotten way out of hand. They undermine our system of justice. Regardless of political affiliation, that should concern police ...

Bob Menendez told reporters that "President Trump was right" and that the Department of Justice has carried out a "political witch hunt," seemingly sending up a pardon flare to the Oval Office.

The courts have previously implied this power exists for the Executive under pardon powers in previous rulings ... We call words with unknown meaning or definition “gibberish”, and we certainly don’t ...