President Trump could make the announcements on June 14, which is both Flag Day and his birthday, or on the Fourth of July.

Donald Trump says in his semi-official publication Truth Social that he has pardoned convicted Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters. Leaving aside the absurdity of his claimed authority to pardon people ...

Most proposed amendments to the Constitution come and go. Out of the thousands floated since the republic’s founding, only 27 have been ratified. There are at least a few online archives dedicated to ...

The recent presidential pardons of figures who tried to overturn the 2020 election are part of a broader effort to rewrite one of the most sordid episodes in recent memory. The effort should be ...

President Trump’s use of his clemency power is drawing criticism as he grants pardons and commutations that at times appear to contradict his agenda and focus largely on people charged or convicted ...

The recent presidential pardons of figures who tried to overturn the 2020 election are part of a broader effort to rewrite one of the most sordid episodes in recent memory. The effort should be ...

Learn how a shocking clemency case has prompted Trenton lawmakers to try and rein in the governor’s power to pardon and issue ...

Harvard University Press, 208 pp. Quite so. But second place must go, I think, to the Prophet Daniel, whose biblical story illustrates why a pardon power is needed. During the Babylonian Captivity, ...

Israeli President Isaac Herzog. Photo credit: wikicommons/Government Press Office of Israel. Presidential pardons exist to serve justice, not expediency ...