During the dismal days that followed Watergate and the resignation of President Richard Nixon, there was a dark-humored joke that made the rounds. It went something like this: As Nixon was making his ...

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

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

Joe Biden has pardoned more than 3,000 people during his final days in office. Other presidents have used the power to ...

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 ...

President Gerald Ford granted her an unconditional pardon. The bombastic owner of the New York Yankees was convicted and fined, but not imprisoned, for making illegal contributions to Nixon’s ...

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 ...

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