Presidential pardons are broad and powerful. Their history, from the Civil War on, illuminates abuse concerns and how reforms ...

There’s no question that Trump and Biden have acted within their authority in issuing pardons for federal offenses. Presidents can extend a pardon, or complete legal forgiveness of a crime, or a ...

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, ...

Waddle was missing from the ceremony, but the pardon covered both. Two very lucky birds won the White House lottery this year -- a presidential pardon and a lifetime free from the Thanksgiving dinner ...

President Donald Trump is making full use of his pardon power. This year, Trump has issued roughly 1,800 pardons, or nearly six times the number he issued during the four years of his first term.

That is, until you remember his predecessor. Joe Biden, at the end of his term, issued a full and sweeping pardon to his son Hunter for gun and drug charges. This was an unprecedented action by a ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Stewart Ulrich, Sam Houston State University (THE CONVERSATION) President Donald Trump ...