The U.S. President, Mr. Gerald Ford’s reputation for candour has seemingly suffered a setback with the disclosure now that he had been persuaded by at least three former aides of Mr. Richard Nixon to ...

Trump and Biden have issued pardons at a faster clip than their predecessors. Many of their decisions appear to have been ...

In addition to interceding if someone had “unfairly been punished by the justice system,” scholar Stewart Ulrich emphasizes this motivation of early presidents to use pardons to help “keep political ...

Presidents in both parties have used their unique power of granting pardons. Some congressional members said its outdated and ...

It is the closest thing to a royal power possessed by any one official of the national government. Once issued and accepted, ...