President Richard M. Nixon sought to fire the special prosecutor leading the Watergate investigation, but his attorney ...

The New York Times is tracking the actions and significant statements of President Trump and his administration during the first 100 days of Mr. Trump’s second term.

More than half a dozen government attorneys have resigned since an order by the Trump administration’s Justice Department to ...

The Politics of Presidential Mercy, by Jeffrey Toobin “When it comes to pardons, presidents are kings,” the legal journalist Jeffrey Toobin writes in his new book, “The Pardon: The Politics of ...

For example, Gerald Ford’s preemptive pardon of Richard Nixon was for “all offenses against the United States which he, Richard Nixon, has committed or may have committed” from Jan. 20 ...

Earlier this week, new ... York Times, the preferred media conduit for the Southern District of New York, reported: “Justice Dept. Is Said to Discuss Dropping Case Against Eric Adams.” Everyone in the ...

By Alan Feuer A Jan. 6 rioter who was pardoned by President Trump and released ... Alan Feuer covers extremism and political violence for The Times, focusing on the criminal cases involving ...

Senior officials under President Trump have talked with prosecutors in Manhattan about the possibility of abandoning the corruption case against New York City’s mayor. By Maggie Haberman William K.

Trump's clemency for Jan. 6 rioters and Biden's reprieve for family represent merely the latest chapters in an odd history of the presidential pardon.

After issuing a pardon to former President Richard Nixon, the Gerald Ford White House said that Nixon's acceptance of it was an admission of guilt in the Watergate affair. In Christian theology ...

Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a key Trump ally, spoke out Sunday against President Trump’s pardoning of violent rioters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, several of whom were ...