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

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

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

NORTH DAKOTA (KXNET) — This week saw the transfer of power from Joe Biden to Donald Trump, and with it, many things quickly changed about the shape of our country. One thing we saw lots of this ...

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 ...

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

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.

It might require amending the Constitution, but the United States should rein in the pardoning power of the president, the ...

Joe Biden’s preemptive pardons are a valid use of pardon power. But they break new ground as a shield for those the president seeks to protect, scholars say.

After issuing a pardon to former President Richard Nixon, the Gerald Ford White House said that Nixon's acceptance of it was an admission of guilt in the Watergate affair. In Christian theology ...