Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Over time, various offices have supported this role in managing the clemency process, including the Office of the Pardon Clerk (1865–1870), the Office of the Attorney in Charge of Pardons (1891–1894). In 1894, the current Office of the Pardon Attorney was established. [1]
All federal pardon petitions are addressed to the president, who grants or denies the request. Typically, applications for pardons are referred for review and non-binding recommendation by the Office of the Pardon Attorney, an official of the United States Department of Justice. The number of pardons and reprieves granted has varied from ...
The pardon “was not processed via application” through the Justice Department’s pardon office, as is customary, according to an email from the senior deputy pardon attorney who isn’t named ...
Michelle West’s commutation request was filed with the Office of the Pardon Attorney in June 2022. An attorney for West has requested that her prison time be reduced. No pardon request was ...
Well, for more than 130 years, the office of Pardon attorney has investigated requests for pardons and advised the president, but the office emphatically points out that the president is the one ...
President Eisenhower began the practice of granting pardons by the batch, through the device of a 'master warrant' listing all of the names of those pardoned, which also delegated to the Attorney General (or, later, the Deputy Attorney General or Pardon Attorney) authority to sign individual warrants evidencing the president's action." [27]
The closest historical precedent for Biden's preemptive acts of clemency is the pardon that President Gerald Ford granted to his predecessor, Richard Nixon, a month after taking office. That ...
Ronald L. Rodgers assumed duties as the Pardon Attorney in the United States Department of Justice in April 2008. The Office of the Pardon Attorney is responsible for reviewing and investigating applications to the President of the United States for executive clemency for federal criminal offenses, drafting the recommendation of the Deputy Attorney General to the President for the disposition ...