In a ceremony that perfectly encapsulates Miami's unique cultural fabric, the two pigs, named after the beloved characters from the musical Wicked, received their official pardons amid the aroma ...

Felon President Donald Trump, on Day One of his reign, pardoned 1,500 people who laid siege on the Capitol in an attempt to ...

When asked if he feels those pardons imply that assaulting police officers ... says that she believes D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser had something to do with these piggy pigs getting their freedom back. “I ...

baby pigs Glinda and Elphaba will never have to worry about gracing the dinner table at a Cuban American family's home on Christmas Eve. Public pardons for the two piglets were granted by the ...

Donald Trump’s recent actions have highlighted the vast scope of the presidential pardon power. By pardoning approximately 1,500 people charged with participating in the January 6, 2021 ...

It is tiresome, but not surprising, that the polarized commentary in the days since the blizzard of pardons and clemencies issued back-to-back by Presidents Biden and Trump has focused on which ...

The U.S. Constitution gives presidents the power to grant pardons and commutations for federal crimes. This unique, unchecked power was meant to be used sparingly, as a last resort to correct ...

Pardons were flying all over Washington last week like a flock of birds, or airplanes during peak hours at Reagan airport. Joe Biden was first, issuing "pre-emptive" pardons to five members of his ...

A commutation, which reduces or removes a sentence but does not imply innocence, is not the same as a pardon, which releases a person from punishment and expresses the president's forgiveness.

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. The pardons, ...