On December 1, 2024, Biden granted his most controversial pardon to his son, Hunter Biden, who was facing sentencing in two criminal cases. The decision represents an unprecedented reversal ...

“So when most people use the term [preemptive pardon], they mean that you’re giving a pardon before someone has actually been convicted — or even before they’ve been charged or investigated.

Trump, who will be sworn in three days later, has the power to pardon Adams. The choice to fly down to Florida to meet the Republican president at his home, which doubles as his transition ...

It’s become a running inside joke among some of Trump’s senior staff that Adams is angling for a pardon. One incoming Trump administration official tells Rolling Stone that they and several ...

The pardon expunged Rostenkowski’s 1996 felony conviction on two counts of mail fraud in connection with charges that he used public funds to buy favors for relatives and political associates ...

It’s intended to right wrongs, not cause new ones. Not all presidents have misused the pardon power, but some have. How you see it often depends upon your politics. To paraphrase an old saw ...

The Federal Government is set to grant presidential pardons to convicts serving various jail terms across custodial centres in the country. To initiate the process, the government, on Wednesday ...

Some defendants who have been sentenced by a federal judge later receive clemency—either a pardon or commutation of sentence—from the president. This act of mercy is sometimes granted to ...

In anticipation of the new regime, crypto degens are using Solana meme coins to gamble on who the 47th President of the United States will pardon. Betters on Polymarket, a crypto prediction market, ...

Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi says if President Biden offered him a preemptive pardon for his role in leading the investigation into then-President Donald Trump's role in the 2021 ...

She was jailed in 2022 for taking part in the attack on the U.S. Capitol five years ago, but now says she will refuse a pardon from President-elect Donald Trump. Trump has vowed to issue ...

(photo: Courtesy of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America) The Thomas More Society is asking President-elect Donald Trump to pardon 21 pro-lifers convicted of violating a federal law that prohibits ...