February 21, 2026 - SAN QUENTIN – On Friday, Governor Gavin Newsom announced that he has granted 8 pardons and 6 commutations. These grantees were recommended for clemency by elected officials, ...

President Donald Trump’s latest pardon got brutal marks in a new poll that showed almost seven to one disapproval of one pardon — with twice as many Trump voters opposing it as supporting it. Trump ...

A man convicted of rape and murder when he was a teenager whose story was documented in the 2015 Netflix series "Making a Murderer" is asking Wisconsin's governor for a pardon or commutation of his ...

If Congress will recognize the longstanding problem of the presidential pardon power and act on its responsibility – always a big "if" – the country will owe a debt of gratitude to Hunter Biden and ...

President Donald Trump has pardoned or granted clemency to 12 current or former House members throughout both terms, serving as an unusually extensive use of commutation power for legislators. Trump ...

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy delivers his State of the State address to a joint session of the Legislature at the statehouse, in Trenton, N.J., Jan. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File) From Camden ...

Disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes has filed a request asking President Donald Trump to commute her federal prison sentence, according to the U.S. Justice Department’s Office of the Pardon ...

Ghislaine Maxwell refused to answer House lawmakers’ questions but signaled she would testify if granted clemency by President Trump, claiming she could say both Trump and Bill Clinton did nothing ...

The book examines the development of the presidential pardon from a good-willed opportunity for forgiveness into a modern political weapon.

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