For all of Biden’s talk in 2020 about how Trump would abuse the pardoning power, it is Biden’s own abuses of that power that will make similar actions by Trump or some future president seem ...

in which he argues that “[h]umanity and good policy” require that “the benign prerogative of pardoning” be available to mitigate the harsh justice of the criminal code. The pardon power ...

It is doubtful if pardoning boards will be any less vulnerable and gullible than the Governors. It is the reproach of our jury system that a man with a pull, whether it be political, social ...

Outside of a few cautionary voices, the conclave at the Constitutional Convention spent little time debating the pardoning power. “I conceive that the President ought not to have the power of ...

This week on Capitol Chat Laura Cullen Glasscock, editor and publisher of the Frankfort-based Kentucky Gazette highlights ...

As one pardon attorney advised Congress in 1952: “In the exercise of the pardoning power, the president is amenable only to the dictates of his own conscience, unhampered and uncontrolled by any ...

In the latest sign that the anti-police fever that swept the nation post-George Floyd has waned, elected leaders across the ...

President Donald Trump dismissed speculation about pardoning Derek Chauvin, the ex-police officer convicted of murdering ...

The High Court has issued a rule questioning why it would not be unconstitutional to pardon a convicted prisoner without a ...

WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump said Friday he is not considering pardoning Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted for his role in the death of George Floyd ...