The president has wide latitude to grant clemency, but Trump has broken all pardon norms and sought even more authority to help his allies.

The president’s pardons encourage public officials to place personal interests ahead of the interests of the people.

President Donald Trump is making full use of his pardon power. This year, Trump has issued roughly 1,800 pardons, or nearly ...

It is the closest thing to a royal power possessed by any one official of the national government. Once issued and accepted, ...

Eighty-five percent of the people granted pardons or clemency this year by President Donald Trump are white, according to a ...

The pardoning power of U.S. presidents is clearly allowed in the historic U.S. Constitution, which was written in 1787. However, the founders and the Constitutional Convention that wrote the document ...

On Thursday, President Donald Trump took to social media to announce that he was issuing a full pardon for Tina Peters, the ...

The president’s stated intention to pardon Tina Peters, jailed for tampering with election machines in 2020, has set off a ...

President Trump announced he is pardoning Texas Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar and his wife, who were indicted last year on ...

Congressman Johnny Olszewski is introducing a constitutional amendment to give Congress the power to overturn presidential ...

The ex-county clerk was convicted of participating in a scheme to prove false claims that the 2020 election was rigged ...

Explore the legal limits of presidential pardon power. Learn when Nigerian courts can quash a pardon, especially when an ...