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 ...

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), the chairman of a Senate investigative subcommittee, will seek thousands of emails sent in the final days of the Biden administration.

Weeks after President Donald Trump commuted the federal life sentence of Gangster Disciples founder Larry Hoover, an apparently fake clemency petition arrived at the offices of Gov. JB Pritzker.

CHICAGO — Weeks after President Donald Trump commuted the federal life sentence of Gangster Disciples founder Larry Hoover, a letter arrived at the offices of Gov. JB Pritzker that purported ...

CHICAGO — Weeks after President Donald Trump commuted the federal life sentence of Gangster Disciples founder Larry Hoover, a letter arrived at the offices of Gov. JB Pritzker that purported to be ...

And Trump, back in office, has made prolific use of his clemency power, including for prominent Chicagoans such as Blagojevich and Gangster Disciples co-founder Larry Hoover. So, even while attorneys ...

“I think the president has availed himself quite a bit of the pardon pen, so to speak, so I wouldn’t think anything’s off the table,” said Senate Republican Leader John Curran, a former Cook County ...

What it takes to get a Trump pardon: Loyalty, connections or the pardon czar President Donald Trump’s revamped clemency process has often disregarded the Justice Department’s guidelines.

President Donald Trump has used his presidential powers this year to pardon or commute the sentences of more than 1,500 individuals. Some of these individuals had prior convictions or pending ...