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Pardons
January 20, 2021
Matt Ford
Trump’s Final Act of Extraordinary Corruption
The president goes out on a seamy and haphazard note, pardoning those who did crimes on his behalf.
December 2, 2020
Matt Ford
The Most Unpardonable Presidential Power
Donald Trump is taking lame-duck pardons to obscene new levels, but he had a boost from his predecessors.
February 19, 2020
Matt Ford
The Real Message of Trump’s Latest Clemency Binge
The president showered mercy on a rogues’ gallery led by disgraced former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich.
November 19, 2019
Matt Farwell
The War Criminals I Have Known
Trump's clemencies were not just to exonerate three trigger-pullers, but to excuse all Americans.
May 17, 2019
Alex Shephard
The Way to Trump’s Heart Is Through His Ego
What Conrad Black’s pardon reveals about the president's crimes.
May 8, 2019
Matt Ford
The
Fox & Friends
Pardon for War Crimes
Trump absolved a former soldier who was convicted of murdering an Iraqi man. It's not the only time the president was swayed by Fox News.
February 26, 2019
Matt Ford
Did Trump Win His War on the Russia Investigation?
By implicitly promising to pardon his allies, Trump may have prevented Robert Mueller from uncovering irrefutable evidence of collusion.
June 8, 2018
Kaila Philo
Trump might pardon Muhammad Ali, who had principled reasons for not serving in the Vietnam War.
June 4, 2018
Matt Ford
The World’s Most Powerful Rube
Rod Blagojevich is trying to pull a fast one on Trump to get pardoned—and it might work, given the president's recent history.
June 4, 2018
Matt Ford
Trump says he can commit federal crimes and get away with it.
June 1, 2018
Matt Ford
The Problem With Trump’s Pardons
How the president is using his executive power to protect himself.
April 13, 2018
Matt Ford
Trump’s politicized pardons are the rule, not the exception.
December 11, 2015
Brian Beutler
(Extrajudicial) murder by numbers, Donald Trump edition.
July 23, 2013
John B. Judis
Obama Should Just Pardon Bradley Manning
It's an elegant way out of the leak controversies
September 2, 2011
Carol S. Steiker
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Jordan M. Steiker
Don’t Blame Perry for Texas’s Execution Addiction. He Doesn’t Have Much to Do With It.
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