More than any previous president, Donald Trump has systematically deployed his authority to grant pardons to reward loyalists, assure appointees and associates that they can violate the law with ...

Trump has put the presidential pardon power on the ballot this year in at least three different ways, underscoring a dire need for congressional oversight and public scrutiny of pardon abuses.

The pardon power developed for centuries among the English, prompting Chief Justice John Marshall to observe in 1833 that we must “adopt their principles respecting the operation and effect of a ...

The origins of the pardon power in the United States Constitution can be found in English history, known previously as the “prerogative of mercy.” It first appeared during the reign of King ...

A Pierce County man who was ordered to be sent to South Sudan as a result of President Donald Trump’s deportation policies is ...

The pardon power is expansive, and also now a near-weekly tool to reward Trump’s political allies.But just last week, a federal court punctured the popular idea that the power is somehow immune ...

President Donald Trump’s use of the pardon power to keep allies out of prison has been unusually barefaced. His first pardon went to a prominent supporter, former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio.

The Justice Department is reviewing the list of people granted pardons by former President Joe Biden amid new concerns about ...

After returning to the White House for his second stint as POTUS, Trump issued ‘full, complete and unconditional’ pardons or ...

In opposing the power of the pardon, Jeff Jacoby wants to throw away just the baby without considering the bathwater. The root problem is not pardons but rather the presidents who grant them.

President Donald Trump has pardoned P.G. Sittenfeld, the former Cincinnati councilman convicted of bribery. What is a ...