Toobin couches his exploration of Gerald Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon within both the broader context of mounting presidential hegemony ...

The Politics of Presidential Mercy, by Jeffrey Toobin “When it comes to pardons, presidents are kings,” the legal journalist ...

I do hereby grant unconditional pardons to all United States persons for those offenses against the United States which such persons may have ...

The pardon power of the president is close to absolute. And most presidents, until Biden and Trump, have been careful not to ...

For example, Gerald Ford’s preemptive pardon of Richard Nixon was for “all offenses against the United States which he, ...

For a half-century, Republicans have tarred them as soft on crime. The GOP claims it is the party of law and order that ...

Trump's clemency for Jan. 6 rioters and Biden's reprieve for family represent merely the latest chapters in an odd history of the presidential pardon.

Think Jimmy Carter’s pardon of Vietnam-era draft evaders or Gerald Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon. The pardon power need not be so all encompassing. A more constrained version is available to ...

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