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Ronald Reagan gave his final pardon to New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner two days before he left office in 1989. Steinbrenner had been convicted of making illegal contributions to ...
The Pope was among those who called on Biden to commute the sentences of those on death row before leaving office. Others argued that an execution was a fitting remedy for hate-fueled mass killer.
Joe Biden said Friday he won't pardon himself, blasted Meta's decision to cut fact-checkers and reiterated he thinks he would have defeated Trump.
The president can issue a reprieve, commuting a criminal sentence, lessening its severity, its duration, or both while leaving a record of the conviction in place. Additionally, the president can make a pardon conditional, or vacate a conviction while leaving parts of the sentence in place, like the payment of fines or restitution.
President Gerald R. Ford's broad federal pardon of former president Richard M. Nixon in 1974 for "all offenses against the United States which he, Richard Nixon, has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 20, 1969 through August 9, 1974" is a notable example of a fixed-period federal pardon that came ...
Before Thursday, Biden had issued 122 commutations and 21 other pardons, mainly for people with nonviolent drug offenses. (During his first term, Donald Trump granted clemency to 237 people ...
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 ...
Yet at the same time, he might still have levers he can pull to make some things happen before he leaves the Oval Office for the last time. Some things Biden can do himself while he still has the ...