U.S. presidents have the constitutional power to exercise leniency toward people who have committed federal crimes through ...

"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 ...

We didn’t eat like this,” my cousin Patrick jokes, cutting his steak at a homecoming dinner with family to celebrate his ...

Trump announced he's pardoning Rod Blagojevich, the former Illinois governor who was sentenced to 14 years in prison before ...

The Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau risk leaving Americans’ nearly $18 trillion in consumer debt with less supervision or regulation, NBC News ...

U.S. President Donald Trump has agreed to consider exempting Australia from his steel and aluminum tariffs, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Tuesday (February 11) after what he called a ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you see one president's actions as politically courageous and the other as a gross miscarriage of justice, you're missing the larger point. These types of executive pardons and sentence ...

Have you been confused or frustrated concerning presidential pardons ... Article II, Section 2 states, “he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States ...

Sen. Mondale introduced the proposition that, “No pardon granted to an individual by the President under Section 2, Article II shall be effective if Congress by resolution, two-thirds of the ...

Presidential pardons began with the George Washington, who pardoned those who participated in the violence known as the Whiskey Rebellion. Long before Jack Sparrow, there was the Caribbean pirate ...