Theodore Roosevelt modeled himself after Ulysses S. Grant. Franklin Roosevelt was a great admirer of his fifth cousin, Theodore Roosevelt. Lyndon Johnson and Joe Biden aimed to be latter-day Franklin ...

and Richard Nixon, who resigned to avoid being impeached in connection with the Watergate scandal. The rarely-used procedure is spelled out in Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution ...

Blagojevich was commuted after serving nearly eight of his 14-year sentence in February 2020, during President Trump's first ...

President Donald Trump on Monday pardoned former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, whose 14-year sentence for political corruption charges he commuted during his first term.

I do hereby grant unconditional pardons to all United States persons for those offenses against the United States which such ...

I do hereby grant unconditional pardons to all United States persons for those offenses against the United States which such persons may have ...

The Politics of Presidential Mercy, by Jeffrey Toobin “When it comes to pardons, presidents are kings,” the legal journalist Jeffrey Toobin writes in his new book, “The Pardon: The Politics of ...

The spotlight on the judiciary is brighter because the Republican-controlled Congress has essentially abdicated its role of ...

In one of several affidavits filed on the night of February 11th, Joseph Gioeli, a Treasury official in charge of technology ...

Recent court orders slowing down or indefinitely blocking President Donald Trump’s policy blitz have raised the specter that the executive branch might openly flout the federal judiciary and prompted ...

To a degree unmatched in my lifetime, and perhaps much further back than that, the culture of American politics is now a ...