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The President's power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, its limitations, and implications.
President Trump issued a sweeping clemency on January 20, 2025 that pardoned or commuted the sentences of roughly 1,500–1,600 people charged in the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, a move h...
The president’s applies only to “offenses against the ,” meaning federal crimes; it does not reach state criminal convictions or private civil liability . While precedent describes the pardon power as...
The President’s clemency power is sweeping within the federal sphere but stopped cold at the state line: it applies to “offences against the ” and cannot be used to vacate state convictions or to reli...