The Whiskey Rebellion was a tax uprising against George Washington's government that marked the young USA's first major ...

Trump's clemency for Jan. 6 rioters and Biden's reprieve for family represent merely the latest chapters in an odd history of ...

In July of 1794, a force of disaffected whiskey rebels attacked and destroyed the home of a tax inspector. The rebellion grew in numbers, if not in actions, and threatened to spread to other states.

The low bar for pardons under presidents from both parties invites people do bad things because the risk of consequence is ...

Paul Guggenheimer Friday, July 12, 2019 7:50 p.m. | Friday, July 12, 2019 7:50 p.m. A multi-regional Whiskey Rebellion Trail some 225 years in the making launched in Pittsburgh’s Strip District ...

Article 6 of our Constitution establishes the supremacy of federal law over that of the States, a change from the Articles of Confederation. It also defines the oaths that members of our three ...

Preemptive pardons, like the ones Joe Biden issued in his final hours as president, have been used by Donald Trump, Jimmy Carter and other presidents.

From the Whiskey Rebellion of 1791, when moonshiners and other whiskey-makers rebelled against the federal government to ...