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Presidential clemency

A sweeping clemency campaign from the presidential level that pardoned or commuted the vast majority of convictions related to January 6.

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Jan 17, 2026
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Has trump pardoned more people than Biden?

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...

Jan 29, 2026
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Which U.S. presidents issued the largest single‑event or mass clemency proclamations in history, and why?

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...

Jan 12, 2026
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did biden sign all of his pardons?

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...

Feb 3, 2026

A large number of non violent protesters on j6 were giving prison sentences for merely walking into the capitol

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...

Feb 2, 2026

What Supreme Court precedents most closely relate to limits on executive clemency and how might they be applied to a self‑pardon case?

’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...

Jan 21, 2026

How many pardons listed on the DOJ clemency grants page are for drug‑related federal convictions?

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...

Jan 19, 2026

Has anyone ever been prosecuted for selling a presidential pardon and what was the case outcome?

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...

Jan 14, 2026

How did presidential pardons and commutations issued in 2025 change sentencing outcomes for January 6 defendants?

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...