Experts say that people who receive presidential pardons generally are remorseful for their crimes, have served their sentences and, if they are controversial, are not granted clemency until the ...

Yet, what worries me the most going forward is the power of the presidential pardon at the whim of an autocrat. Presidential pardons are not new. In fact, George Washington issued the first 16 ...

When Governor Maura Healey unveiled a blanket pardon of marijuana possession convictions in March 2024, her office said it would begin automatically updating people’s records to reflect the ...

Donald Trump’s recent actions have highlighted the vast scope of the presidential pardon power. By pardoning approximately 1,500 people charged with participating in the January 6, 2021 ...

President Donald Trump's pardons of the Jan. 6 defendants and two D.C. police officers convicted in the death of Karon Hylton-Brown have many people asking questions about the president's pardon ...

A lot has been written lately about Presidential pardon power. While many of us know its origins, we don’t know or at least give much thought to its implications. Article II, Section 2 ...

Many top Georgia Republicans defend the president’s decision to pardon more than 1,500 people, including 44 with Georgia ties, charged in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021 attack that Trump has ...

Over a span of 12 hours, two presidents went on a clemency spree. The extraordinary wave of pardons Monday — from Joe Biden as he left the White House and from Donald Trump as soon as he ...

Inauguration Day began and ended with unusual pardons from two presidents that legal and democracy scholars say reflected a lack of faith in the justice system, just as Donald Trump entered office.

President Biden pardoned his siblings just minutes before leaving office on Monday. The pardon applies to James Biden, Sara Jones Biden, Valerie Biden Owens, John Owens, and Francis Biden ...

And yet, the power of the presidential pardon, based on the embrace of the concepts of mercy and amnesty, essentially guarantees that, in fact, a select few are actually not held accountable for ...

A viral bar chart claims President Joe Biden has issued significantly more presidential pardons than any other president. “ARE BIDEN’S PARDONS UNDERMINING TRUST IN THE PRESIDENCY? He has ...