Through 6.5 hours of proceedings on Tuesday, the government largely did the talking, with the defense eschewing both an ...

Texas Senator Ted Cruz has argued some of the pardons and sentence commutations issued by President Joe Biden before he left office in January 2025 are likely legally "null and void" because they were ...

President Donald Trump has claimed that the thousands of pardons signed during the Biden administration are void, due to ...

Republicans investigate whether White House misused autopen in issuing mass clemency, as Biden defends process and affirms ...

Joe Biden used his final weeks as president to grant clemency and pardon more than 1,500 people in what his White House described as the largest single-day act of clemency by a U.S. president.

Given the many big names who have received pardons recently by President Donald Trump, it's fair to ask, how do you get a pardon, anyway?

INSKEEP: I'm just going through some of the president's recent pardons. It's quite a variety. Michael Grimm, former New York representative who pleaded guilty to felony tax evasion.

Presidential pardons peaked during former President Franklin Roosevelt's time in office. During his four terms, Roosevelt granted 2,819 pardons, many of which were wartime offenses from World War I.

Here to discuss how Trump is transforming presidential pardon power is NPR national political correspondent Mara Liasson. So, Mara, as far as I know, a president has no limits on pardons.

10 fascinating presidential pardons, from bootleggers to traitors. Presidents have used the power to try and unite a divided nation or simply to smite political enemies. June 1, 2025.

Before he left office in 1953, President Harry Truman handed out a number of pardons to politically connected convicts — and, perhaps to avoid blowback, he did so entirely in secret.. In 2001 ...

A MARTÍNEZ, HOST: President Trump had a pardon-packed May, issuing 19 last month. That's according to the Department of Justice. He commuted eight sentences in May as well.