In a new book, Jeffrey Toobin makes a convincing case that Ford’s pardon of President Nixon set the stage for unchecked ...

College Football Hall of Fame coach Jim Tressel, who won the 2002 national title at Ohio State University, has been nominated ...

I do hereby grant unconditional pardons to all United States persons for those offenses against the United States which such persons may have ...

I do hereby grant unconditional pardons to all United States persons for those offenses against the United States which such ...

On the final day of his presidency, Joe Biden issued preemptive pardons to close family members and adversaries of President ...

A constitutional amendment seems appropriate — perhaps a supplement to Article II, Section 2, stipulating that a pardon, to ...

Fewer and fewer people seem to understand how our government was designed to work, Grunion columnist Harry Saltzgaver writes.

Doubts about the wisdom and judgment of pardons granted over the past half century by Presidents Gerald Ford, George H.W. Bush, Joe Biden and Donald Trump have made a compelling case for the amendment ...

At its best, the presidential pardon power is a tool of mercy, an instrument to correct abuses of power and miscarriages of ...

The pardon power of the president is close to absolute. And most presidents, until Biden and Trump, have been careful not to ...