Earlier this week, a man convicted in the killing of an 8-year-old boy and his mother in Bridgeport in 1999 has been granted ...

In the final hours of President Joe Biden’s term, he granted Leonard Peltier clemency through commutation, allowing him to ...

Donald Trump's blanket relief for Capitol rioters and Joe Biden's preemptive pardons set dangerous precedents for the use of ...

A merican presidents are often disappointed to discover limits to their authority, but the country’s founders intended the ...

President Donald Trump’s new Justice Department leadership is curtailing prosecutions against people accused of blocking ...

When a party’s leader claims to “back the blue” but pardons or frees those who assaulted police, some party members may feel dissonance. How do they reduce that dissonance?

He granted the clemency all at once ... If Trump had followed Biden's example, as all future presidents may, he would have issued blanket pardons for all of the January 6 defendants on January ...

Just to pick one example, in 2022 he labeled the story of ... And neither Washington nor Johnson made clemency a campaign issue. Not so Donald Trump, who was the first person ever to make the ...

This is an example of an unhealthy mix of politics and criminal justice seeing a man get out of prison sooner than he should be. Even with federal ranking clemency, he will still have a conviction ...