As expected, former President Joe Biden handed out 10-year blanket pardons to his corrupt family ... Ponder the long-term consequences of blanket amnesty for political allies.

President Donald Trump signs an executive order pardoning about 1,500 defendants charged in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol in the Oval Office of the White House, Jan. 20 in Washington ...

Juliet abortion clinic were pardoned last week. President Donald Trump on Thursday issued a slate of pardons to anti-abortion activists who had been convicted in five different federal cases of ...

Presidential pardons began with the George Washington ... three years after the Civil War to issue an Independence Day amnesty to anyone who participated in what he called “the rebellion.” ...

On January 21, 2025, the Iraqi Parliament passed several laws, including the amended personal status law and a general amnesty law. Both are said to have a significant effect on parts of the Iraqi ...

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) detailed the need for new legislation he has introduced regarding presidential pardons, stressing that “guardrails” need to be placed on these going forward.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., broke with President Donald Trump on his pardons of accused Jan. 6 rioters. During an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday, Graham called the pardons of 1,500 ...

Sen. Lindsey Graham said it was a “mistake” to pardon those who were violent participants of the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol. “Number one, he had the legal authority to do it.

Donald Trump granted only one pardon during his first year in office when he last served as president. Now, just days into his second term, Trump has averaged one pardon for every few minutes he ...

President Donald Trump’s decision to pardon or commute the sentences of around 1,500 people involved in the Jan. 6 insurrection, including the more than 600 people convicted of assaulting or ...

Another Jan. 6 rioter has rejected President Trump’s pardon, saying that he “did those things” and his actions do not merit forgiveness. “It’s almost like he was trying to say it didn ...

Bernadette Meyler, law professor at Stanford University and a scholar of British and American constitutional law, argues the pardons granted by Trump to the convicts "was more like an amnesty than ...