Clemency gives the president the power to pardon or commute sentences. How has Donald Trump used his power in his first year ...

Earlier this month, President Donald Trump issued a pardon for Adriana Camberos, a businesswoman who had been convicted of ...

President Donald Trump has leaned into his presidential clemency powers much more aggressively in his second term –in fact, ...

The U.S. got its law from England, and per English law, the king could pardon any convicted criminal as a “prerogative of mercy.” Case closed. The Constitution’s framers included the pardon power, ...

Yet it is difficult not to feel that more mercy, rather than less, would be salutary for our society today. With polls ...

Just one year into his second term, President Donald Trump has pardoned an unusually high number of wealthy people accused of ...

The White House has confronted questions for months about whether presidential pardons are effectively for sale. Those ...

A constitutional amendment needs to be approved to limit the president’s pardon power. While pardons have been abused in the past, like Gerald Ford pardoning Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton pardoning ...

Article II of the U.S. Constitution grants the president the unconditional power to grant “reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States.” Pardons do not extend to impeachments or to ...

The president has the power to pardon, but I believe that power should be taken away, not only from the current president, but from all presidents. No president should be allowed to pardon one who has ...

President Trump’s pardon of Gov. Wanda Vázquez Garced shows how colonial power corrupts justice in Puerto Rico.