President Trump pardoned Charles Kushner, center, who is the father of his son-in-law Jared Kushner. The senior Kusher now serves as U.S. ambassador to France. Marko Georgiev/AP That is, until you ...

President Trump’s use of his clemency power is drawing criticism as he grants pardons and commutations that at times appear to contradict his agenda and focus largely on people charged or convicted ...

President Donald Trump cannot unilaterally decide that pardons are null and void. The U.S. Constitution gives presidents nearly unlimited power to issue pardons. But if someone’s pardon is revoked, ...

California Democrat Mike Levin is co-sponsoring a constitutional amendment "to reform the pardon power," he announced on X.

President Donald Trump is taking an increasingly personal role in the government’s clemency process, wielding pardons with historic frequency to aid allies and advance his own political grievances.

The US president has the absolute right to grant pardons. But Donald Trump’s spree of pardons for loyalists and business allies has raised not only political eyebrows but also legal questions about ...

The antifederalist opponents of the Constitution worried that the office of the presidency was too powerful. “To be the fountain of all honors in the United States,” An Old Whig wrote in December 1787 ...

The president of Israel, Reuven Rivlin, resisted political pressure to pardon Yitzhak Rabin’s assassin because “he never apologized for what he did.” Donald Trump has abused his prerogative, granting ...