The Politics of Presidential Mercy,” Jeffrey Toobin, a CNN legal commentator and contributing writer for the New York Times’s ...

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, ...

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

The possibility of a president’s pardoning himself for a crime is not precluded by the explicit language of the Constitution, and during the summer of 1974, some of President Richard M.

Toobin’s thesis is brashly revisionist; Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon has gone down in history as a great act of beneficence. According to conventional wisdom, by immunizing Nixon from ...

Gerald Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon is now not even among the worst 1,500 in history. President Donald Trump’s blithe act of forgiveness for more than 1,500 defendants involved in the Jan. 6 ...

Presidential pardons began with the George Washington ... including reprieves for the likes of President Richard Nixon, officials implicated in the Iran-Contra affair and disgraced commodities ...

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 ...