For Vladimir Jankélévitch, who served in the French Resistance, some acts were beyond the realm of forgiveness.

During the dismal days that followed Watergate and the resignation of President Richard Nixon, there was a dark-humored joke that made the rounds. It went something like this: As Nixon was making his ...

It is fair to say that each president’s exercise of the pardon power pushed the outer limits of legitimacy. In fact, the ...

As White House staff secretary, he plays a key role in overseeing the flow of information and business to and from the ...

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JD Vance and his family have officially moved into the vice presidential residence at the Naval Observatory — and they are ...

Abraham Lincoln's eight-year-old son is believed ... That's the origin story of the annual White House tradition of the presidential turkey pardon that occurs each fall. Maureen Mackey and ...

One thing we saw lots of this week as power switched from one political party to the other was presidential pardons ... During and after the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson both used the ...

Presidents Abraham Lincoln ... These pardons were granted to heal the wounds of the Civil War, and Union loyalists thought these pardons unjust. Those who argue that President Trump granted ...

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 ...

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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 ...