Have you ever thought about the power of the presidential pardon? Until the recent pardons from Joe Biden and Donald Trump, I really did not question this power in which total control is given to the ...

Danielle Sassoon has resigned as the acting U.S. attorney in Manhattan after the DOJ ordered the corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams to be dismissed.

No wonder former Gov. Rod Blagojevich is pictured smiling on the front page of the Tribune ( “Trump accords full pardon to ...

The Politics of Presidential Mercy, by Jeffrey Toobin “When it comes to pardons, presidents are kings,” the legal journalist Jeffrey Toobin writes in his new book, “The Pardon: The Politics of ...

The same day, he issued a full pardon to former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich for trying to sell a U.S. Senate ...

Nearly five years after commuting former Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s federal prison sentence, President Donald Trump on Monday granted a full pardon to the disgraced former governor who was convicted more ...

On Jan. 20, President Trump granted pardons to more than 1,500 rioters who attacked the Capitol on January 6, 2021, to overthrow the 2020 election. He did so despite the fact that the majority of ...

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After watching President Donald Trump pardon the Jan. 6 rioters, including people convicted of clubbing police and sentenced to 20 years in prison; remembering that Trump pardoned our esteemed ...

Idaho constitutional law professor David Adler states that this action may be the greatest abuse of presidential pardon power in U.S. history. A few hundred of these persons threatened the lives ...

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Just when I thought President Trump could not go lower in his moral bankruptcy, he sinks to new depths. His pardoning of the 1,500 thugs who attacked the Capitol in an attempt to overturn the ...