On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher argued President Trump is transforming the pardon power “into just another partisan tool to undermine our democracy.” Maher said, “[P]ardons is one of those cool powers that a president has
On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Deadline: White House,” former FBI Special Agent Clint Watts stated the US is “closer to being a Third World power, as of today.” He added “tariffs and pardons” “are things that we see from banana
On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Wolf,” Representative Steve Cohen (D-TN) stated he believes the pardon of author Dinesh D’Souza is sending a message to President Trump’s supporters about the Russia investigation and that if the pardon power is used to
President Donald J. Trump announced Thursday he will pardon conservative author and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza, who was convicted of breaking campaign finance laws in 2014.
“His trials and tribulations were great, his life complex and controversial,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “Others have looked at this over the years, most thought it would be done, but yes, I am considering a Full Pardon!”
In yet another personal attack against President Trump, CNN’s Jake Tapper spread the false claim that Lewis “Scooter” Libby leaked the name of CIA agent Valerie Plame.
On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Wolf,” CNN Political Analyst David Gregory reacted to the pardon of Scooter Libby by stating President Trump has a perspective “that the rule of law doesn’t matter.” Gregory said, “This is also Trump with a view
President Donald Trump issued a full pardon to I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, former chief of staff to Vice President Richard Cheney, on Friday afternoon for convictions related to a 2007 trial and conviction.
President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Saturday to criticize California Governor Jerry Brown for pardoning five illegal aliens for other crimes.
President Donald Trump pardoned navy submariner Kristian Saucier on Friday, the sailor who brought up Hillary Clinton as part of his defense in trial proceedings. White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders made the announcement during Friday afternoon’s press conference: In
On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA) argued the president doesn’t have the power to use pardons to obstruct justice and any pardon of former Trump Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort should be looked at as
The reception of God’s mercy in dependent upon a person’s acknowledgement of his sins, Pope Francis said Wednesday, because “the proud person is unable to receive forgiveness.”
California Gov. Jerry Brown celebrated a Sanctuary State Christmas by pardoning two convicted criminal aliens to prevent their deportation next week by the Trump administration.
House Speaker Paul Ryan has thrown in with leftists to rip President Donald J. Trump for pardoning Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) criticized President Trump’s decision to pardon former Maricopa County, Arizona, Sheriff Joe Arpaio Friday, saying that it “undermines his claim for the respect of the rule of law.”
WASHINGTON—Arizona Rep. Trent Franks praised President Donald Trump’s decision to pardon former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Friday, calling it “right and just” for Arpaio and his family.
President Donald Trump all but announced a pardon of convicted Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio at his Tuesday night rally in Phoenix, AZ.
The White House dismissed rumors that President Donald Trump would pardon Sheriff Joe Arpaio during his campaign rally on Tuesday.
ROMA, Texas — Four family members who ran one of the largest cartel smuggling operations in south Texas had their life in prison sentences commuted and will likely be returning to this border city from where they ran their criminal empire. One of the main destinations that the criminal organizations delivered drugs to was Chicago, Illinois.
Former Weather Underground terrorist group leader Bill Ayers on Tuesday said he was on an airplane “dancing in the aisles” over news that President Obama commuted the sentence of FALN activist Oscar López Rivera, whose group was linked to over 100 bombs placed in U.S. cities in the 1970s and 1980s.
The governor of Vermont has pardoned the son of former Democratic vice presidential nominee Geraldine Ferraro almost 30 years after he was convicted of selling cocaine to an undercover officer while in college, the Daily Mail reported.
California Gov. Jerry Brown, continuing his practice of granting clemency before major Christian holidays, pardoned another 112 people, bring his total as governor to record 1,258.
Democrats are calling on President Obama to pardon illegal immigrants brought to the United States as children in order to protect them from deportation under President-elect Donald Trump.
U.S. Army Sgt. Matt Vierkant (Ret.), the former leader of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s platoon, said on Fox and Friends Monday that Bergdahl’s decision to seek a pardon from President Obama is a “desperate attempt” by him and his defense team.
Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who is accused of deserting his Army outpost and was taken prisoner by the Taliban for five years before being freed in exchange for five Taliban prisoners, has requested a pardon from President Obama.
President Barack Obama pardoned a turkey Wednesday afternoon, wishing all Americans a Happy Thanksgiving.
On Thursday’s Breitbart News Daily, SiriusXM host Alex Marlow asked Professor John Banzhaf of George Washington University Law School about the possibility that outgoing President Barack Obama – or maybe even incoming President Donald Trump – might pardon Hillary Clinton for the various offenses that have been investigated by the FBI, and could conceivably be reviewed by a special prosecutor in the future.
During his campaign rally in Michigan on Friday, Donald Trump demanded that President Obama not pardon Hillary Clinton.
The big push accompanying Oliver Stone’s new biopic to pardon Edward Snowden doesn’t appear to be moving the White House.
Clinton is still the favorite to win in November, but mounting scandals will follow her to the White House — unless President Barack Obama pardons her, which looks both necessary and likely.
Obama is exercising his constitutional clemency power on a scale larger than any president has done in more than a century.
Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke was strongly critical of President Obama’s decision to issue a record number of pardons to felons, and the sentencing reform bill currently making its way through Congress, during his appearance on Friday’s Breitbart News Daily.
Appearing on Wednesday’s Breitbart News Daily, Center for Security Policy founder Frank Gaffney said he was an “admirer of Mike Flynn’s,” but judged that his speech at the Republican National Convention “wasn’t his best speech, and it was a difficult circumstance in which to provide it, after Mrs. Trump’s appearance.”
A pair of petitions calling for the release of Steven Avery, subject of Netflix’s new true crime series “Making a Murderer,” from prison have garnered nearly 200,000 signatures from fans who believe the man was wrongly convicted of murder.
Robert Downey, Jr. received an official pardon from California Gov. Jerry Brown on Christmas Eve for his 1996 drug conviction in the state.
On September 6, U.S. Marine Joshua Velez visited his brother in New Bergen, New Jersey, and was arrested for possession of a lawfully purchased 9mm handgun and hollow-point bullets.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has signed pardons for 10,000 former juvenile offenders in order, he says, to allow them to leave their past off applications for employment and credit.
After officially kicking off the Jubilee Year Tuesday, Pope Francis addressed crowds on Wednesday, telling them that the purpose of a Holy Year is to “live mercy” and that what God likes best is “forgiving his children.”
According to a new poll, only 33% of Americans would support a presidential pardon for rogue National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, who faces espionage charges. Of the poll respondents, 53% support these charges, while only 26% were opposed to a federal prosecution.
“I believe that at its heart, America is a nation of second chances, and I believe these folks deserve their second chance,” he said, suggesting that a life sentence for non-violent drug offenders were “not hardened criminals” and didn’t deserve overly harsh prison sentences.
