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

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

Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra warned against the impact of a preemptive presidential pardon for people ...

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

Hunter Biden's presidential pardon from his father is extraordinary enough that the last comparable incident was former President Richard Nixon's pardon in 1974. On Sunday night, President Joe ...

In some rare cases, presidents have even pardoned individuals who had not been charged with a crime: Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon after the Watergate scandal, and Jimmy Carter pardoned most ...

Presidential pardons have always been a point of controversy in the United States but some president’s decisions, like Joe Biden pardoning his son Hunter, have led to more criticisms than others.

President Joe Biden’s pardon of son Hunter for any offenses over a nearly 11-year period doesn’t have many, if any, direct historical parallels.

President John F. Kennedy, for example, pardoned one of the birds he was gifted in 1963. Similarly, in 1973, President Richard Nixon's wife, First Lady Patricia Nixon, pardoned one and sent it to ...

Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon after the Watergate scandal, and Jimmy Carter pardoned most Vietnam War draft dodgers, both charged and uncharged. The only limits — at least according to the ...