Hundreds of requests for pardons and clemency petitions for federal convictions are filed each year, but usually just a few result in a presidential pardon or commutation of sentence. Recent ...

With his sweeping pardons of convicted and violent felons, including several from Utah, Trump has proven his point with two ...

His second inauguration had just occurred and the speeches were barely over when Donald Trump pardoned pretty much all of the ...

With the leader of a failed coup back in the White House and pursuing an unprecedented assault on the constitutional order, ...

President Donald Trump granted a blanket pardon Monday evening to virtually all Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot defendants and ...

What kind of society do we want as we again live in a Trump era, with pardons and commutations from a convicted felon that invite crimes, including his own, to recur?

Trump's pardon of violent Jan. 6 rioters raises fears that he'll pardon anyone who commits crimes on his behalf in the future ...

Later Monday, Trump issued a blanket pardon for virtually all of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot defendants and commuted the sentences of the remaining 14 — a broad move that gives some form of clemency ...

The Department of Justice has ordered the corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams to be dismissed, according to a department official.

Monday’s pardons by two presidents violate the spirit ... prosecution of the King’s advisers — which then took the form of impeachment. After various misdeeds by the Earl of Danby, one ...

The pardon recipients now join Mr. Trump himself ... which contributed to the era of mass incarceration. As a form of penance, he issued clemency to 2,500 individuals who received ...

Fourteen people received commutations instead of full pardons. A commutation is a lesser form of clemency that means those individuals will be released from prison immediately, but — at least ...