President Donald Trump is taking an increasingly personal role in the government’s clemency process, wielding pardons with historic frequency to aid allies and advance his own political grievances.

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In addition to interceding if someone had “unfairly been punished by the justice system,” scholar Stewart Ulrich emphasizes this motivation of early presidents to use pardons to help “keep political ...

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