My good young people here, you’re called to be witnesses to your peers, you’re called to help them to come to know what ...

And yet, the power of the presidential pardon, based on the embrace of the concepts of mercy and amnesty, essentially guarantees that, in fact, a select few are actually not held accountable for ...

Pardons were flying all over Washington last week like a flock of birds, or airplanes during peak hours at Reagan airport. Joe Biden was first, issuing "pre-emptive" pardons to five members of his ...

Former Trump attorney Michael Cohen is demanding President Biden pardon him like he pardoned his son Hunter before President-elect Donald Trump can take office. Cohen discussed his efforts to ...

President Biden’s and President Trump’s pardons have generated a lot of controversy. But there are considerable differences between the two sets of pardons, with a two-tiered system of justice ...

Lawmakers at the state and federal levels are responding to President Joe Biden’s record presidential pardon spree – as more than 3,000 people found their sentences commuted or pardoned.

The U.S. Constitution gives presidents the power to grant pardons and commutations for federal crimes. This unique, unchecked power was meant to be used sparingly, as a last resort to correct ...

The state with the most people charged? Florida. On Tuesday, Trump said he planned to issue "major pardons" for the Jan. 6 rioters. “People that didn't even walk into the building are in jail ...

WASHINGTON ― President Joe Biden said Friday he will not issue a preemptive pardon for himself as he considers pre-pardoning adversaries of President-elect Donald Trump who he fears could be ...

Trump will once again have the ability to grant pardons to those who have committed federal crimes, voicing his potential choices ahead of Inauguration Day. Will any Floridians be among those ...

Trump’s massive pardon of those convicted of in the Jan. 6 insurrection on the Capitol pushes him to the top of the rankings for most pardons issued by a president in modern history. Getty ...

A commutation, which reduces or removes a sentence but does not imply innocence, is not the same as a pardon, which releases a person from punishment and expresses the president's forgiveness.