It is fair to say that each president’s exercise of the pardon power pushed the outer limits of legitimacy. In fact, the ...
The road to Garvey’s presidential pardon is a story of tireless activism by human rights leaders, Garvey’s descendants and members of Congress.
Trump’s swift pardon of Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht has reportedly encouraged a slew of white-collar convicts, like SBF, ...
President Donald Trump’s allies, including Vice President JD Vance, are making calls to shore up support for both Robert F.
Many in the White House were “rattled” by her refusal to directly answer a question about Edward Snowden, according to a person familiar with the White House’s thinking.
Former U.S. President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 of 40 people on federal death row to life imprisonment. A commutation, which reduces or removes a sentence but does not imply innocence ...
Following Donald Trump’s first presidential election victory in 2016, “a relatively obscure” Stanford law professor named ...
Former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) might be cozying up to President Donald Trump for a pardon after being sentenced to 11 ...
Trump didn’t fully explain why he gave commutations in those 14 cases and not pardons. While signing the clemency order Monday, he said: “We have about six commutations in there where we’re ...
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I beg your pardons
Pardons were flying all over Washington on Monday like a flock of birds, or airplanes during peak hours at Reagan airport. Joe Biden was first, issuing “pre-emptive” pardons to five members of his ...
President Donald Trump signs an executive order pardoning about 1,500 defendants charged in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol in the Oval Office of the White House, Jan. 20 in Washington.