Barkow and Reason's Billy Binion talked about the importance of the presidential pardon power—which is a controversial topic these days, after former President Joe Biden used it to preemptively ...

President Trump is tapping Alice Johnson, the 69-year-old grandmother he granted clemency in his first term over long-ago drug offenses, to be his "pardon czar." "You've been an inspiration to ...

Hungary’s conservative president has resigned amid public outcry over a pardon she granted to a man convicted as an accomplice in a child sexual abuse case, a decision that unleashed an ...

Former state Sen. Brian Kelsey was two weeks into his 21-month prison sentence. A former Tennessee lawmaker who was once represented by White House Counsel David Warrington said he received a ...

By Kenneth P. Vogel Reporting from Washington On the morning of Jan. 6, 2021, a top White House official assured a Republican lobbyist that his client’s pardon application would be placed in the ...

But on Tuesday, the Justice Department said he should be immediately released based on President Donald Trump’s mass pardons for people convicted of storming the Capitol on Jan. 6. It’s the ...