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40th governor of Illinois from 2003 to 2009
Joe Biden granted far more acts of clemency than recent predecessors, with Pew reporting his commutations alone were more than double Barack Obama’s 1,715 commutations during Obama’s eight years . Don...
A sitting U.S. president cannot simply pick up and arrest a state governor; federal criminal process—investigation by federal authorities, indictment, and a court-ordered arrest—would normally be requ...
Donald Trump’s most controversial pardons clustered around three themes: clemency for January 6 defendants and allies who sought to overturn the 2020 election; pardons for political allies, donors, an...
President Donald J. Trump’s clemency actions are reported with widely different totals: an official Office of the Pardon Attorney listing shows in a narrow 2025 window, while multiple news and oversig...
After her 2004 combat deployment to Iraq — where her UH‑60 Black Hawk was hit by an RPG and she suffered life‑changing injuries — Tammy Duckworth spent a year recovering at Walter Reed, then moved int...
Donald Trump used the presidential pardon and commutation powers to free a mix of high‑profile political allies, celebrities, and lesser‑known defendants; notable names repeatedly cited across sources...
President Donald J. Trump has issued clemency actions that include individual pardons and broad packages of pardons and commutations covering hundreds to thousands of people, notably participants in t...
Donald J. Trump’s 2017–2021 clemency actions included a substantial number of , reflecting a pattern noted across multiple reports and compilations of his 237 clemency actions . Contemporary news outl...
a significant but not limitless number of governors have been convicted on federal corruption charges; reporting counts roughly 11 such governors and identifies a recurring toolkit of federal statutes...
A precise, single-number answer cannot be produced from the available reporting because no source in the provided set publishes an authoritative tally that classifies every clemency recipient as a fam...
Donald Trump has issued large-scale clemency actions that include blanket pardons for roughly 1,500 people charged in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol attack, individual pardons and commutatio...
Barack Obama issued roughly 1,927 acts of clemency during his presidency — including about 1,715 commutations (many of them for lengthy drug sentences) and 212 pardons — and used commutations far more...
Donald Trump’s clemency record in 2025 emphasized political allies, January 6 defendants and high‑profile white‑collar figures — including mass pardons for those tied to the Jan. 6 Capitol attack and ...
Allegations and investigations tying former U.S. presidents or their allies to “selling” favors, appointments or pardons have surfaced repeatedly in recent years, most prominently Rod Blagojevich’s ca...
Donald J. Trump’s most notable pardons span two presidencies and include high-profile political allies, figures tied to attempts to overturn the 2020 election, celebrity and media personalities, and w...