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Federal law treats offering or paying for an official act — including a presidential pardon — as bribery when done corruptly; both scholars and prosecutors have long applied 18 U.S.C. § 201 and relate...
President Joe Biden issued the largest single-day clemency action in modern history—commuting the sentences of roughly 2,490–2,500 people—bringing his overall total of individual pardons and commutati...
George W. Bush issued very few clemency acts: he is one of the presidents since 1900 who granted the fewest acts of clemency, joining George H.W. Bush . By contrast, Donald Trump’s second presidency h...
Bill Clinton’s public legacy is a mixture of strong policy accomplishments and recurring controversies that ranged from the Monica Lewinsky affair and impeachment to long-running probes like Whitewate...
Presidents have long been accused of turning the unique powers of the chief executive toward partisan, personal, or extra-legal ends; documented examples range from cover-ups to contested uses of pard...
Presidential clemency has long been a constitutional power used to shape justice, heal political rifts, and, at times, to short-circuit prosecutions — and whenever it touches cases connected to an adm...
Presidents have occasionally used commutations or pardons in ways that touch members of Congress and their networks, but the public record in the provided reporting does not offer a comprehensive tall...
Donald J. Trump’s raw number of pardons rose sharply after a large, early-2025 round that included roughly 1,500 Jan. 6 defendants, pushing his lifetime count into the thousands and placing him among ...
President Biden’s clemency record on drug offenses is historically large in scale: he commuted nearly 2,500 sentences for nonviolent drug offenses in a single action and, by his account, has issued mo...
No source in the provided reporting quotes a grand-jury witness or a cooperating witness explicitly alleging that President Trump promised or conditioned a pardon as a quid pro quo; available reportin...
Donald J. Trump’s use of clemency is historically unusual: by some counts he has issued thousands of pardons and commutations in his second presidency (including mass proclamations for Jan. 6 defendan...