December 25, 1868, and January 20, 2025, will now be forever linked in American history. These are the dates when two of our ...
Biden’s pardons show “a lack of faith in the fairness of the criminal justice system,” Jeffrey Crouch, an American University professor who authored “The Presidential Pardon Power,” told The Wall ...
Duel pistols were no match for the White House incumbent, who fended off the assailant with his cane on this date in 1835 ...
President Trump’s political opponents have called him cruel and authoritarian and dictatorial. They’ve accused him of ...
Inspectors general are federal government investigators embedded in government agencies to ferret out waste, fraud, and abuse ...
In The Impeachment Power, Keith Whittington offers sound and convincing guidance for would-be practitioners of the ...
One thing we saw lots of this week as power switched from one political party to the other was presidential pardons.
President Trump's top advisers have discussed ousting independent watchdogs -- known as inspectors general -- at multiple ...
U.S. presidents have held the right to pardon crimes since the country’s founding, and they have exercised it often with ...
Pardons will always be a president’s attempt to have the last word. Amid the usual public outcry, it’s rare that it works, ...