pardons

Former President Donald Trump has pledged to create a task force if reelected to review and potentially pardon or commute the sentences of every “political prisoner who’s been unjustly persecuted by the Biden administration.”

Public defenders in Houston, Texas, are seeking a posthumous pardon for George Floyd’s 2004 drug conviction, where he spent ten months behind bars.

The United States Justice Department filed a civil lawsuit against Roger Stone and his wife on Friday in federal court in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and accused the couple of owing about $2 million in federal income taxes.

A court of appeals supported a lower court ruling that “double jeopardy” protected Paul Manafort from prosecution in New York state after his pardon by former President Donald Trump.

Rappers Lil Wayne and Kodak Black were both on the list of 100-plus pardons released Wednesday by President Donald Trump in his last full day in office.

President Donald Trump has commuted the sentence of Death Row Records’ co-founder and convicted felon Michael “Harry O” Harris, after the rapper Snoop Dogg reportedly lobbied the White House on behalf of his friend.

A last-ditch effort to persuade President Donald Trump to issue a pre-emptive pardon to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is reportedly being blocked by White House counsel Pat Cipollone, according to reports.

United Nations human rights experts on Wednesday denounced President Donald Trump’s decision to pardon four American men convicted of killing Iraqi civilians while working as contractors in 2007 as a violation of international law.

Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse (R) released a short statement bashing President Donald Trump for exercising his constitutional right as president to grant pardons and commute sentences to 29 individuals.

Papadopoulos was charged with one count of making false statements during Special Counsel Robert Muller’s investigation into accusations of the Trump campaign colluding with Russia. 

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) expressed the belief this week that President Trump should pardon himself and others as a means of defense from potential retaliation from the radical left’s “bloodlust.”

A reporter attending the annual White House turkey pardon ceremony on Tuesday shouted out a question about other pardons. “Pardons before leaving office? Will you be issuing a pardon for yourself?” the reporter shouted.

A sex offender pardoned months ago by former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin (R) has been arrested on a federal charge of producing child sex abuse material.

Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich told reporters on Tuesday evening, as he was boarding a flight home to Chicago after he was freed from federal prison: “I’m a Trumpocrat now.”

During a town hall on CNN on Tuesday, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg criticized President Trump’s recent pardons and commutations by stating that Trump “seems like he’s never met a corrupt politician he didn’t like.” After

Reality Winner, a National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower who was found guilty of leaking classified intelligence about Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election, is petitioning President Donald Trump for her early release from prison.

Blagojevich was sentenced to 14 years in prison after he tried to sell the U.S. Senate seat vacated by former Sen. Barack Obama after he was elected president in 2008. To date, Blagojevich has served over seven years of his prison sentence.

Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, who was impeached and removed, and later criminally convicted, for trying to sell then-president-elect Barack Obama’s U.S. Senate seat, has written an op-ed condemning Democrats’ ongoing impeachment effort.

President Donald Trump granted a full pardon Wednesday to former publisher Conrad Black, a Canadian who embraced the U.S., only to find himself the target of what many observers considered a wrongful prosecution and conviction in 2007.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” President Trump stated that he doesn’t “want to talk about pardons” at the moment. Trump said, “Well, as I told you, many, many people were hurt, incredibly hurt by this whole

Outgoing California Governor Jerry Brown has declined a request by San Francisco Mayor London Breed to grant clemency to her brother for a manslaughter conviction for which he was sentenced to 44 years in prison in 2000.

California Governor Jerry Brown issued a pardon Wednesday to former Democratic State Senator Roderick Wright, who lied about living in the district he had been elected to represent and became a symbol of corruption in the state capital.

California Gov. Jerry Brown used his executive powers to issue 36 gubernatorial pardons on Friday, to hit a record of 1,018 pardons in eight years in office.

Friday on HBO’s “Real Time,” during an interview with Georgetown professor Michael Eric Dyson, host Bill Maher suggested some of the things President Donald Trump was doing regarding African-Americans, including a number of presidential pardons, could ultimately lead to Trump going

President Donald Trump extended an offer Friday to professional athletes protesting the national anthem to come up with a list of people they believed should be pardoned for their crimes.

Last week, President Trump pardoned Dinesh D’Souza – an accomplished conservative author, pundit, filmmaker, and scholar. It was a perfect example of how the pardon power is supposed to be used.

It goes beyond chutzpah, arrogance, and myopia. Former Attorney General Eric Holder has dared to condemn President Trump’s decision to pardon anti-Obama author and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza, saying he was not a “good candidate” for a pardon.

On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued President Trump is pardoning “the extreme right-wing swamp” one person at a time. Brooks stated, “Usually, there’s a process where you decide there’s some injustice, or somebody’s exemplary in some way

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo pardoned 18 illegal aliens slated for deportation Wednesday while he issued his pardons for the holiday season.

President Donald Trump stood by his decision to pardon former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio at his Monday press conference after members of his own party criticized the move.

With his last minute pardons, commutation of prison sentences and prison releases, Barack Obama is proving to be an equal opportunity president.

Oscar López Rivera, the mastermind of Puerto Rican nationalist group FALN, placed more than 130 bombs throughout the United States, most concentrated in New York and Chicago.

Gov. Terry McAuliffe has illegally granted voting rights to 60,000 convicted felons in the key swing state of Virginia, a move that could give Hillary Clinton a victory in that state—and possibly the White House—unless supporters of Donald Trump get out to the polls on Election Day.