Trump has put the presidential pardon power on the ballot this year in at least three different ways, underscoring a dire need for congressional oversight and public scrutiny of pardon abuses.

The decision by President Joe Biden to pardon his son, Hunter, despite previously suggesting he would not do so, has reopened debate over the use of the presidential pardon. Hunter Biden will be ...

President Donald Trump’s use of the pardon power to keep allies out of prison has been unusually barefaced. His first pardon went to a prominent supporter, former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio.

The origins of the pardon power in the United States Constitution can be found in English history, known previously as the “prerogative of mercy.” It first appeared during the reign of King ...

The pardon power is expansive, and also now a near-weekly tool to reward Trump’s political allies.But just last week, a federal court punctured the popular idea that the power is somehow immune ...

The pardon power developed for centuries among the English, prompting Chief Justice John Marshall to observe in 1833 that we must “adopt their principles respecting the operation and effect of a ...

President Donald Trump’s use of the pardon power to keep allies out of prison has been unusually barefaced. His first pardon went to a prominent supporter, former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio.

One of the Trump family’s crypto ventures has received key behind-the-scenes help from the world’s largest digital-asset ...

In opposing the power of the pardon, Jeff Jacoby wants to throw away just the baby without considering the bathwater. The root problem is not pardons but rather the presidents who grant them.

The pardon power was one of many provisions in the Constitution that the framers, and later the state delegates who ratified it, debated. Some thought the power should lie with the legislature or ...

Legal scholars are outspoken in their criticism of Trump’s use of the pardon power. Rachel Barkow, a law professor at N.Y.U., described Trump’s goals by email: ...