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

Ultimately, reforming the pardon power is crucial to ensuring that the president remains accountable to the law and the ...

Trump’s executive orders, and the legal battles they’ve started, will ultimately matter more than his January 6 pardons.

In South Africa, such actions must be be rational and consistent with the Bill of Rights, and are reviewable, but there are ...

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

Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. These examples highlight the dual nature of the pardon power: It can foster healing in a divided nation and also right the individual ...

Today, the power has become as polarising as the ... need to identify the crime committed in order to issue a pardon. The most famous example is Mr Ford’s pardon of Mr Nixon for all offences ...

Mr. Biden’s pardons show “a lack of faith in the fairness of the criminal justice system,” Jeffrey Crouch, an American ...

but the country’s founders intended the nearly absolute pardon power to be an exception. Alexander Hamilton, for example, believed that legislators should not be involved in the pardons process ...

If anything, it’s an (unfortunate) example of how the pardon power has its own type of democratic legitimacy. In the end, Trump’s decision to let those who rioted in his name out of prison ...

There were similar examples in early America ... would be restricted from granting them indemnity through the pardon power. Nor was amnesty ever mentioned in Article II, leaving open the ...