On the final day of his presidency, Joe Biden issued preemptive pardons to close family members and adversaries of President ...

One thing we saw lots of this week as power switched from one political party to the other was presidential pardons.

Gerald Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon is now not even among the worst 1,500 in history. President Donald Trump’s blithe act of forgiveness for more than 1,500 defendants involved in the Jan. 6, 2021, ...

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

During the dismal days that followed Watergate and the resignation of President Richard Nixon, there was a dark-humored joke ...

A merican presidents are often disappointed to discover limits to their authority, but the country’s founders intended the ...

Biden’s preemptive pardon to cover up for potential misconduct involving himself is a totally different ballgame, and puts him within the company of President Donald Trump at the end of his first ...

Trump's clemency for Jan. 6 rioters and Biden's reprieve for family represent merely the latest chapters in an odd history of ...

There is precedent for preemptive pardons, however. Former President Gerald Ford preemptively pardoned Richard Nixon after the Watergate scandal.