During the dismal days that followed Watergate and the resignation of President Richard Nixon, there was a dark-humored joke ...

One thing we saw lots of this week as power switched from one political party to the other was presidential pardons.

The U.S. Constitution gives presidents the power to grant pardons and commutations for federal crimes. This unique, unchecked power was meant to be ...

A merican presidents are often disappointed to discover limits to their authority, but the country’s founders intended the ...

Gerald Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon is now not even among the worst 1,500 in history. President Donald Trump’s blithe act of forgiveness for more than 1,500 defendants involved in the Jan. 6 ...

Joe Biden preemptively pardoned his family and others concerned about retribution from Donald Trump. The Constitution says ...

Challenges: Gerald R. Ford’s Whip Inflation Now (WIN ... Ford had to refocus the people’s attention in the aftermath of Watergate; he bungled this when he pardoned Nixon only months after assuming the ...

The most famous example is Gerald Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon, who never fully acknowledged his role in Watergate. Then there was George H.W. Bush’s decision to pardon Casper Weinberger ...

Pardons will always be a president’s attempt to have the last word. Amid the usual public outcry, it’s rare that it works, ...