If Congress will recognize the longstanding problem of the presidential pardon power and act on its responsibility – always a big "if" – the country will owe a debt of gratitude to Hunter Biden and ...

Since the start of his second term, President Donald Trump has utilized pardons and commutations to address what he has deemed injustices dealt by the justice system. A pardon essentially forgives a ...

President Donald Trump has pardoned or granted clemency to 12 current or former House members throughout both terms, serving as an unusually extensive use of commutation power for legislators. Trump ...

President Donald Trump has leaned into his presidential clemency powers much more aggressively in his second term –in fact, he’s pardoned one woman twice.

The U.S. got its law from England, and per English law, the king could pardon any convicted criminal as a “prerogative of mercy.” Case closed. The Constitution’s framers included the pardon power, ...