Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy issued a challenge to fellow candidates Tuesday regarding the charges against Donald Trump.
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolfe (D) has pardoned rapper Meek Mill, who has been in and out of courts and jail for more than a decade.
A request to give George Floyd a posthumous pardon is on its way to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) once a public defender claimed Floyd was framed during a 2004 drug bust by a former Houston detective indicted on murder charges.
Just before departing the Capitol on Wednesday, President Donald Trump signed the release of seven prisoners serving sentences for marijuana charges.
Rapper Kodak Black, who was pardoned by President Donald Trump on Tuesday, featured an actor in one of his music videos who played a Trump supporter being chocked during a fight.
President Donald Trump commuted the sentence of the former Democratic mayor of Detroit Kwame Kilpatrick, who was found guilty of two dozen corruption charges including racketeering, extortion, and fraud.
President Donald Trump announced late Tuesday night that he had pardoned and commuted the sentences of 143 people in the final hours of his presidency.
The New York Times cited White House officials confirming that Trump had pardoned Bannon, reporting that Bannon and his allies pressed the president intently for a pardon while Bannon’s detractors argued against him.
During an interview with WAMC on Tuesday, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) discussed the possibility of President Donald Trump pardoning former New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and said that Trump might pardon Silver as “a favor for someone
Former FBI Director James Comey said during an interview with BBC Newsnight this week that President-elect Joe Biden should “consider” pardoning President Donald Trump as Democrats continue their second impeachment attempt mere days before he is slated to leave office.
According to disgraced former Trump attorney Michael Cohen, he would have been among those receiving a late-term pardon from President Donald Trump had he chosen not to “speak truth to power” against his old boss.
CNN political commentator Bakari Sellers said on Wednesday’s broadcast of “The Situation Room” that President Donald Trump’s pardon of four former Blackwater security guards who were convicted of a massacre in Baghdad that killed a dozen Iraqi civilians is a “stain” on “particularly Evangelicals who lift him up.”
Judge Emmet G. Sullivan, the presiding federal judge in the trial of former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, said Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s decision to pardon Flynn did not mean that the retired general was actually innocent.
Joe Biden’s choice to run the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) lobbied White House officials to free a Los Angeles drug trafficker in 2001.
The family of former National Security Advisor Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn (Ret.) released a statement Wednesday evening thanking President Donald Trump for pardoning him, and thanking Americans for their prayers.
President Donald Trump pardoned his former National Security Advisor, Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn (Ret.), on Wednesday.
During MSNBC’s coverage of the 2020 Republican National Convention on Tuesday, host Rachel Maddow reacted to President Trump’s pardon of Jon Ponder at the RNC by stating that Trump made the event comparable to the Roman Coliseum where “there’s the
President Donald Trump announced Tuesday the pardon of convicted bank robber Jon Ponder ahead of his appearance on the second night of the Republican National Convention.
Friday on Fox Business Network’s “Lou Dobbs Tonight,” former Trump adviser Roger Stone reacted to a U.S. District Court ruling he must report on July 14 for his prison sentence. Stone likened the possibility of being incarcerated to a “death sentence,” given the threat of COVID-19.
President Donald Trump should preemptively pardon former President Barack Obama for any crimes he may have committed in “Obamagate,” the effort by the previous administration to frame the incoming one for “Russia collusion.”
Roger Stone told Breitbart News that President Donald Trump has not promised him a presidential pardon following his conviction in November.
“I’m following this very closely and I want to see it play out to its fullest because Roger has a very good chance of exoneration in my opinion,” Trump said on Thursday.
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
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI) said that he expects that House Democrats will hold hearings on President Trump’s recent pardons and commutations. Cicilline said, “I mean, we will, of course, I expect, have hearings
“In 1989, at the height of his finance career, Mr. Milken was charged in an indictment alleging that some of his innovative financing mechanisms were in fact criminal schemes,” the White House said in a statement defending the pardon.
President Donald Trump ripped top prosecutors and FBI officials like James Comey on Tuesday for spying on his campaign and prosecuting campaign operative Roger Stone and his former National Security Advisor Gen. Michael Flynn. “Now we found out that they
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) on Wednesday signed a law that allows his state to bring charges against individuals who have received a presidential pardon.
President Donald Trump once again said he is leaning toward pardoning former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D).
On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz said that it “certainly seems logical” that former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen would have looked for a pardon, and there needs to be strong evidence
On Tuesday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) warned President Trump to refrain from talking about pardons for either former Trump attorney Michael Cohen or Paul Manafort at his rally in West Virginia on Tuesday or at any point in
New York Democrat Gov. Andrew Cuomo pardoned seven illegal aliens with criminal convictions on their records Monday to help them evade deportation by federal immigration officials.
President Donald Trump granted executive clemency on Tuesday to multi-generation cattle ranchers Dwight Lincoln Hammond Jr. and son, Steven Hammond.
A former Navy sailor who received a presidential pardon from Donald Trump filed a lawsuit Monday against several Obama administration officials for allegedly giving him unequal protection under the law when they gave former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton a pass for the same offense he received a prison sentence for.
President Donald Trump announced that he was considering a pardon for boxing champion Muhammad Ali, continuing his string of high-profile pardons.
Thursday on Hugh Hewitt’s radio show, Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) discussed President Donald Trump’s use of his pardoning power. Cornyn said one of the individuals he would like to receive a pardon from the president is former CIA Director David
President Donald Trump stated that he had the right to pardon himself despite the ongoing investigation into Russian collusion by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher argued President Trump is transforming the pardon power “into just another partisan tool to undermine our democracy.” Maher said, “[P]ardons is one of those cool powers that a president has
On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Deadline: White House,” former FBI Special Agent Clint Watts stated the US is “closer to being a Third World power, as of today.” He added “tariffs and pardons” “are things that we see from banana
On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Wolf,” Representative Steve Cohen (D-TN) stated he believes the pardon of author Dinesh D’Souza is sending a message to President Trump’s supporters about the Russia investigation and that if the pardon power is used to
President Donald J. Trump announced Thursday he will pardon conservative author and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza, who was convicted of breaking campaign finance laws in 2014.
