What a difference from four years ago, when a mob stormed the Capitol, when Trump sought to upend the election results and, ...

It is tiresome, but not surprising, that the polarized commentary in the days since the blizzard of pardons and clemencies issued back-to-back by Presidents Biden and Trump has focused on which ...

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 ...

Lawmakers at the state and federal levels are responding to President Joe Biden’s record presidential pardon spree – as more than 3,000 people found their sentences commuted or pardoned.

Now-former President Joe Biden and President Donald Trump ended and began their respective terms by issuing numerous pardons. The United States founders envisioned a narrow scope for the presidential ...

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 ...

In the final hours of his presidency, Joe Biden issued blanket pardons to several people to protect them from politically-motivated prosecutions. Recipients included members of his family like his ...

A commutation, which reduces or removes a sentence but does not imply innocence, is not the same as a pardon, which releases a person from punishment and expresses the president's forgiveness.

Monday’s pardons by two presidents violate the spirit of the pardon power and suggest the need for constitutional reform to eliminate presidential amnesties. After outgoing President Joe Biden ...

However, later on Monday, one of Trump’s first presidential acts was to grant a sweeping pardon to rioters who entered the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, including those who violently attacked police.

Lawmakers at the state and federal levels are responding to President Joe Biden’s record presidential pardon spree – as more than 3,000 people found their sentences commuted or pardoned. The pardons, ...