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

Skeptics have suggested that Trump’s threats are mostly hot air. They reckon that the U.S. legal system — with its life-tenured judges, juries, constitutional rights, burdens of proof, rules of ...

As reported on Jan. 23 by Vanessa Carlson Bender, South Dakota’s House of Representatives voted unanimously on Jan. 22 to ...

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

In a new book, Jeffrey Toobin makes a convincing case that Ford’s pardon of President Nixon set the stage for unchecked ...

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

On the final day of his presidency, Joe Biden issued preemptive pardons to close family members and adversaries of President ...

A constitutional amendment seems appropriate — perhaps a supplement to Article II, Section 2, stipulating that a pardon, to ...

I do hereby grant unconditional pardons to all United States persons for those offenses against the United States which such persons may have committed to date over their lifetimes.” Who would be ...

U.S. presidents have the authority to grant clemency, which includes both pardons and commutations. A pardon relieves a person of some or all of the consequences of a criminal conviction ...