The U.S. President, Mr. Gerald Ford’s reputation for candour has seemingly suffered a setback with the disclosure now that he had been persuaded by at least three former aides of Mr. Richard Nixon to ...
Trump and Biden have issued pardons at a faster clip than their predecessors. Many of their decisions appear to have been ...
In addition to interceding if someone had “unfairly been punished by the justice system,” scholar Stewart Ulrich emphasizes this motivation of early presidents to use pardons to help “keep political ...
We must put guardrails around the use of the presidential pardon, and we must let soldiers be soldiers and police officers be ...
Presidents in both parties have used their unique power of granting pardons. Some congressional members said its outdated and ...
In extending pardons, even English kings showed some rationality, but Trump’s policies have gone from a breeze to a tornado.
The president’s pardons encourage public officials to place personal interests ahead of the interests of the people.