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A sweeping clemency campaign from the presidential level that pardoned or commuted the vast majority of convictions related to January 6.
No — across the available reporting, Joe Biden granted far more acts of clemency (pardons plus commutations) than Donald Trump. Multiple analyses put Biden’s total in the thousands — far above Trump’s...
Two kinds of have produced the largest single‑event or mass actions in U.S. history: categorical proclamations that covered hundreds of thousands (or thousands) at once, and end‑of‑term multi‑case pac...
President Biden presided over an unprecedented number of acts of clemency—thousands by the Justice Department’s tally—and while he has said he personally decided on those grants, the physical signatur...
The claim that “a large number of non‑violent protesters on were given prison sentences for merely walking into ” is partly true in the narrow sense that many defendants prosecuted for entering the bu...
’s doctrine on is a mix of strong endorsements of plenary executive power and narrow, situational limits; nineteenth-century precedents described the pardon power as “unlimited” except for , while twe...
The public DOJ clemency portal exists and publishes clemency grants, but the documents provided to this briefing do not include a parsed list from which an exact, verifiable count of pardons for can b...
No record in the provided reporting shows that anyone has been successfully prosecuted specifically for “selling a presidential pardon”; reporting instead shows allegations, investigations and legal d...
The January 20, 2025 clemency actions erased remaining punishments for roughly 1,500 people charged in the January 6 Capitol attack by issuing blanket full pardons to most defendants and commuting the...