No other U.S. president has come close to wiping away the amount in fines and restitution owed to victims that Trump has.
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Founder Stewart Rhodes says he will relaunch the group, serving as an important outlet for thousands of members who have felt lost since his imprisonment, a scholar writes.
It’s not yet clear whether Trump’s pardons will herald a period of national harmony – as past presidents hoped for – or more incidents of violence, as actually resulted.
Historically, it has been difficult to convict people of conspiring to overthrow the government or stop its normal functioning.
The new president has shown clemency to supporters who attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
The ‘optics’ were not good for Joe Biden, but most parents would understand the president’s desire to protect his son.
Despite the controversy surrounding them, presidential pardons can provide a service – the question is how they are used.
The lame-duck period in the US is longer than in other Western democracies, which tend to make the transition over a period of just days.
President Gerald Ford’s pardon of former President Richard Nixon 50 years ago is seen as a damaging precedent establishing presidential impunity. Now, the Supreme Court has affirmed that impunity.
From immigration and federal spending to Ukraine and the state of American schools, eight GOP presidential candidates had a lot to say.
South Africa can’t possibly remain the same country in the aftermath of this mayhem. There are just too many storms ahead to simply continue unchanged.
Speculation has swirled over whom President Trump may pardon before leaving office. But why do presidents have the right to pardon, and how should it be used?
A former lawyer for the US House of Representatives explains the constitutional and historical limits barring Congress from checking the president’s clemency powers.
Presidents past have used a nearly limitless power of pardon to halt criminal prosecutions before. What’s to stop Trump?
Two men were convicted in 1859 of violating the Fugitive Slave Act. They had rescued a runaway slave from slave hunters in Ohio, one of the small acts of resistance that led to the Civil War.
Pardoning a man who has illegally used racial profiling to round up Latinos could send a message to law enforcement that aggressive tactics are OK by the president.
Presidents past have used this nearly limitless power to halt criminal prosecutions before. What’s to stop Trump?
The Myanmar government hailed Barack Obama’s recent trip to Burma, the first US president to visit the former military regime, by pardoning 56 prisoners. On his return to the US, President Obama will pardon…
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