Clemency gives the president the power to pardon or commute sentences. How has Donald Trump used his power in his first year ...

Earlier this month, President Donald Trump issued a pardon for Adriana Camberos, a businesswoman who had been convicted of ...

Donald Trump says in his semi-official publication Truth Social that he has pardoned convicted Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters. Leaving aside the absurdity of his claimed authority to pardon people ...

The White House has confronted questions for months about whether presidential pardons are effectively for sale. Those questions just got louder.

The U.S. got its law from England, and per English law, the king could pardon any convicted criminal as a “prerogative of mercy.” Case closed. The Constitution’s framers included the pardon power, ...

It took KY more than 200 years to get someone to wield pardons as recklessly as former Gov. Matt Bevin. The law wasn't the ...

One of our nation’s key founding principles is the rule of law — the idea that every person and institution within a government is subject to the same set of rules. I deeply believe in the rule of law ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) That is, until you remember his predecessor. Joe Biden, at the end of his term, issued ...

President Trump’s pardon of Gov. Wanda Vázquez Garced shows how colonial power corrupts justice in Puerto Rico.

Article II of the U.S. Constitution grants the president the unconditional power to grant “reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States.” Pardons do not extend to impeachments or to ...

Yet it is difficult not to feel that more mercy, rather than less, would be salutary for our society today. With polls ...

Harvard University Press, 208 pp. Quite so. But second place must go, I think, to the Prophet Daniel, whose biblical story illustrates why a pardon power is needed. During the Babylonian Captivity, ...