"The increased pardon activity has elevated public attention on pardon power. This article explores the history, scope, and limitations of the pardon power, and provides answers to some practical ...

Hundreds of requests for pardons and clemency petitions for federal convictions are filed each year, but usually just a few result in a presidential pardon or commutation of sentence. Recent ...

Donald Trump granted only one pardon during his first year in office when he last served as president. Now, just days into his second term, Trump has averaged one pardon for every few minutes he ...

The parents of disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried are reportedly seeking a presidential pardon for their son through Donald Trump’s team, according to Bloomberg. Bankman-Fried is currently ...

President Trump’s pardon of the Jan. 6 rioters concluded his executive orders on his first day in office last Tuesday, Jan. 21. Despite Vice President JD Vance’s assurance that violent criminals ...

A Long Island federal judge has issued an opinion highlighting the “careless execution” of presidential pardon power which has now commuted the sentence of a convicted sex trafficker as part ...

At its best, the presidential pardon power is a tool of mercy, an instrument to correct abuses of power and miscarriages of justice. At its worst, this imperial power can be employed as a corrupt ...

Presidential pardons began with the George Washington ... the unfinished business of the Vietnam War. It was 1941 when Iva Ikuko Toguri — born in Los Angeles, educated at UCLA — moved to ...

On Jan. 20, as he left the White House, President Joe Biden granted pardons to 25,000 individuals, offering official forgiveness for their crimes. Among those pardoned was criminal justice ...

VERIFY readers wanted to know if newly sworn-in President Donald Trump can revoke the pardons that Biden issued before leaving office. The Constitution gives the president sweeping powers to ...

Hunter Biden got a pardon, as did Joe Biden’s brothers, sister, and several other presidential relatives. Mark Milley got a pardon. Anthony Fauci got a pardon. And many more. Even more ...

riot and departing President Biden used it not for mercy but as a shield. Trump’s final decision to issue blanket pardons and commutations to the more than 1,500 of his followers charged in ...