Preserve the Mercy of Pardon Power, Even If Presidents Misuse It
The pardon power is a rare instance where our government has enshrined the quality of mercy. That's a virtue we should value ...
The New Yorker2d
The Feminist Law Professor Who Wants to Stop Arresting People for Domestic Violence
For years, Leigh Goodmark was convinced that the way to keep women safe was through arrests and prosecutions. Now she’s ...
Read The Brief That Recommends Dropping The Charges Against Eric Adams, Annotated
The amicus brief was written by Paul D. Clement, a noted conservative lawyer, at the behest of Federal District Judge Dale E.
The Christian Century4d
The D.C. church that beat the Proud Boys in court now owns their name
There was no disagreement as to whether we should engage,” says Metropolitan AME pastor Bill Lamar, “but there was definitely ...
Trump’s long purge: The president is trying to undo the four years he was gone
As the end of the first month of President Donald Trump’s second term approached, the New York Times sounded an alarm: He has ...
The US has pardoned insurrectionists twice before – and both times, years of violent racism followed
It’s not yet clear whether Trump’s pardons will herald a period of national harmony – as past presidents hoped for – or more ...
How the pardon power came to undermine the rule of law
How this unfettered clemency power came to be written into our Constitution and how, in spite of frequent abuse, it seems ...
The Assault on the Independent Judiciary
Our independent judiciary, with the power and duty to protect individual rights and to hold the political branches to their ...
New Hampshire Public Radio7d
Refresher Course: What does the president’s lawyer do?
The White House counsel says, “Here's how you can do that legally and wisely, and here's the potential liability if you don't ...
Biden and Trump pardons come under scrutiny, renewing calls for reform
The back-to-back presidential clemencies by Biden and Trump leaned on politics, drawing intensive scrutiny of the process and ...
Courts push back on DOJ’s effort to expand reach of Trump’s Jan. 6 pardon
Federal judges are pumping the brakes on the Justice Department’s newfound claim that President Donald Trump’s blanket pardon of Jan. 6 defendants was meant to cover a broad list of crimes that have ...
Lassen County Times8d
Choi introduces measure to prohibit gubernatorial pardons for family
“The power to pardon is a serious responsibility that is meant to serve ... If the voters chose to approve the ballot measure put forward by SCA 2, California can lead by example, showing that no one ...