Bill Clinton was accused of selling a pardon. Joe Biden tried to put a legal cocoon around his family. Donald Trump granted ...

It might require amending the Constitution, but the United States should rein in the pardoning power of the president, the ...

A constitutional amendment seems appropriate — perhaps a supplement to Article II, Section 2, stipulating that a pardon, to ...

At its best, the presidential pardon power is a tool of mercy, an instrument to correct abuses of power and miscarriages of ...

In a new book, Jeffrey Toobin makes a convincing case that Ford’s pardon of President Nixon set the stage for unchecked ...

The pardon was the latest overture between the president and the former governor, who is still known in Chicago simply as ...

Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich says he’s “profoundly grateful” after President Donald Trump pardoned him on political ...

Trump commuted Blagojevich’s 14-year sentence for political corruption charges during his first term. He planned to sign the ...

The pardon power of the president is close to absolute. And most presidents, until Biden and Trump, have been careful not to ...