When Bill Clinton used his last hours as president to pardon or commute the sentences of 176 wrongdoers — including two ...

Pardoning your own family member may seem like an abuse of power, but it is within the president’s constitutional power to do ...

Despite the controversy surrounding them, presidential pardons can provide a service – the question is how they are used.

What can the historical use of this awesome power tell us about how we should judge this political inflection point?

Protesters converge on the steps of the New York Public Library ​to mark the fourth anniversary of the January 6 attack on ...

J.D. Vance, the U.S. vice-president-elect, said the pardon question is 'very simple,' saying those who protested peacefully ...

When asked on Friday if he would use his presidential pardon power to preemptively pardon himself, Biden seemed baffled. "Well, what would I pardon myself for?" Biden asked. "No, I have no ...

What pardons will come from Donald Trump in his first few days of his presidency? See some convicted people from or in ...

Is Donald Trump about to make all of Rudy Giuliani’s legal troubles go away? That’s the impression you might get from the ...

With the controversy over President Joe Biden’s pardons, we can see history repeating itself, writes Kenneth Lasson.

Observer readers comment on fears about Trump’s term, Ukraine, NATO, Jan. 6, Birkdale Village and the New Orleans attack. | Letters to the Editor ...

“Generally criminal contempt is within the power of the president, but civil contempt is not,” Margaret Love, a lawyer who served as the Justice Department pardon attorney in the ...