How this unfettered clemency power came to be written into our Constitution and how, in spite of frequent abuse, it seems ...

In a new book, Jeffrey Toobin makes a convincing case that Ford’s pardon of President Nixon set the stage for unchecked presidential power.

NORTH DAKOTA (KXNET) — This week saw the transfer of power from Joe Biden to Donald Trump, and with it, many things quickly changed about the shape of our country. One thing we saw lots of this ...

One of the most famous examples is Gerald Ford’s 1974 pardon of Richard Nixon. Nixon had not been charged with any crimes related to the Watergate scandal, but Ford issued the pardon to prevent ...

When President Ford pardoned President Nixon, he gave a nine-minute address to the American people. "Difficult decisions always come to this desk," Ford said at the time. "Someone must write the end.

For those who were around at the time of the 1970’s spectacle involving Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, Jeffrey Toobin’s exciting new book just published, "The Pardon," is an ...

Pardons rarely attracted much attention thereafter, until Watergate. As the scandal mushroomed, Nixon contemplated pardoning the burglars who broke into the Democratic national headquarters as ...

Toobin’s thesis is brashly revisionist; Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon has gone down in history as a great act of beneficence. According to conventional wisdom, by immunizing Nixon from ...