Landsman, a Democrat from Cincinnati's Mount Washington neighborhood, said at a recent news conference that both Biden's and Trump's pardons hurt the public's trust in government. Trump's pardons ...

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 ...

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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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) detailed the need for new legislation he has introduced regarding presidential pardons, stressing that “guardrails” need to be placed on these going forward.