Leonard Peltier, who has been described as a “remorseless killer” after being convicted of killing two FBI agents on a South ...

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

The police officer who shot and killed a protester during the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was not pardoned by former ...

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 ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica — The quest for a U.S. presidential pardon for revolutionary Black nationalist leader Marcus Mosiah Garvey began more than 100 years ago, immediately after Garvey was convicted ...

I was disgusted to learn that President Trump issued pardons and commutation of sentences to criminals who were convicted by a court of law with sedition for assaulting Capitol police who were ...

Lawmakers at the state and federal levels are responding to President Joe Biden’s record presidential pardon spree – as more than 3,000 people found their sentences commuted or pardoned.

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 ...

Presidential pardons need to end. Persons who were found guilty after having gone through the judicial process should not see their sentence changed or dismissed by a president who thinks ...

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) detailed the need for new legislation he has introduced regarding presidential pardons, stressing that “guardrails” need to be placed on these going forward.

And anyone familiar with President Donald Trump knows he's a shameless huckster always eager to squeeze his supporters to ...