Clemency gives the president the power to pardon or commute sentences. How has Donald Trump used his power in his first year ...

In his first year back in the White House, President Trump has presided over a sweeping expansion of executive power while ...

President Donald Trump has frequently made news by granting pardons. A pardon is one way the president can grant clemency.

Even President Donald Trump’s push for total, unchecked power may struggle to overcome the potent combination of political reality and moral outrage.

On January 16, in a cringe-making scene, Trump accepted the Nobel Peace Prize medal awarded to courageous Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado. Her gesture might have salved the ego of a ...

President Donald Trump pardons Butter, the national Thanksgiving turkey, in 2019at the White House in Washington, D.C., as first lady Melania Trump watches. The recent presidential pardons of figures ...

These days, the Justice Department is so busy pursuing revenge against President Donald Trump’s enemies it’s a wonder they have time to do anything else. In fact, nearly half of all FBI agents in the ...

President Donald Trump’s unprecedented misuse and abuse of a pardon power that dates back 250 years serves as a real-world scenario of what can happen when a system of checks-and-balances – like, say, ...