President Biden announced he is commuting prison sentences for nearly 1,500 people and pardoning 39 others in what is the ...
In the words of the English legal theorist William Blackstone, clemency is “a court of equity in [the president’s] own ...
What can the historical use of this awesome power tell us about how we should judge this political inflection point?
Today marks four years to the day since protesters stormed the U.S. Capitol, in an attempt to derail the certification of the ...
The Justice Department has used the FACE Act as a cudgel to force peaceful pro-life advocates into submission — and prison.
WASHINGTON – First came President Joe Biden's controversial pardon this month of his son, Hunter Biden. It was followed Thursday by the largest single-day act of clemency in modern history ...
From the column: "The former Duluth head shop owner can be gratified for the dichotomy that facilitated him now being a free man." ...
Pardoning your own family member may seem like an abuse of power, but it is within the president’s constitutional power to do ...
Enrique Tarrio, the former Proud Boys chairman serving 22 years in prison for seditious conspiracy over the Jan. 6 attack, is ...
When President Joe Biden signed a sweeping pardon for his son this month, he sidestepped the Justice Department’s rigorous vetting process for people seeking clemency. Meanwhile, the president ...
Shannon Agofsky and Len Davis have filed emergency petitions seeking to block the commutations of their death sentences.