The president’s habit of handing out pardons like party favors was a scandal in his first term. It’s worse now.

The pardon power is a rare instance where our government has enshrined the quality of mercy. That's a virtue we should value ...

How this unfettered clemency power came to be written into our Constitution and how, in spite of frequent abuse, it seems ...

This week's guest is Rachel Barkow, a professor of law at New York University and the author of the book Justice Abandoned: ...

Payback and projection have long been two of President Trump’s touchstones. He settles scores in return for every perceived ...

Columnist Ann Coulter says Biden’s mass clemencies overturned federal law, freeing 4,000 criminals and commuting death ...

The pushback is raising profound, untested questions about the presidential pardon power itself: How can courts be sure what was in a president’s mind when he signed a pardon using broad, ambiguous ...

The judicial system has started to rule against the administration’s decimation of the civil service. If only it could actually enforce its rulings.

President Donald Trump’s return to power has created a stampede of white-collar criminals, Crypto figures, and convicted ...

Trump can pardon Chauvin’s 20-year federal convictions for violating Floyd’s civil rights, but pardoning or commuting Chauvin ...

Former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy wants a pardon from President Donald Trump. And why not? Isn't everybody these days?