On the final day of his presidency, Joe Biden issued preemptive pardons to close family members and adversaries of President Donald Trump, offering them a legal shield against "politically motivated ...

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

Biden issued preemptive pardons, while Trump pardoned Jan. 6 rioters. Over the past several weeks, two U.S. presidents use ...

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.

In his final hours in office, President Joe Biden issued blanket preemptive pardons Monday to prominent government officials, the bipartisan January 6 th committee, and members of his own family, ...

Posts saying that a Judge Joseph Barron on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled pardons granted ...

After issuing a pardon to former President Richard Nixon, the Gerald Ford White House said that Nixon’s acceptance of it was ...

During the dismal days that followed Watergate and the resignation of President Richard Nixon, there was a dark-humored joke that made the rounds. It went something like this: As Nixon was making his ...

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

For example, Gerald Ford’s preemptive pardon of Richard Nixon was for “all offenses against the United States which he, Richard Nixon, has committed or may have committed” from Jan. 20 ...