Former Connecticut Gov. John Rowland was one of several people with Connecticut ties to receive a presidential pardon over ...

All were unlikely beneficiaries this week of pardons, with President Donald Trump flexing his executive power to bestow ...

In his last days in office, President Joe Biden is issuing expansive clemency orders. Just this month, he’s pardoned his own ... are too severe under current federal law. The people whose ...

If a rationale for the current pardon system exists, certainly it is weakened by the presidential power plays we’ve seen most recently from Biden and Trump. Judges in criminal cases can ...

And yet, the power of the presidential pardon, based on the embrace of the ... and then edited for clarity in its current form. There may be some differences between the audio and the text.

This means that under current law, as long as President Biden made sure the pardons were officially delivered, they cannot be revoked. VERIFY reached out to the Department of Justice to ask what ...

Samuel Morison, a lawyer focused on clemency who spent 13 years in the Justice Department’s Office of the Pardon Attorney, talked about the ability of the president to pardon themself.