Politics Dec 29 Trump's attempt to pardon Tina Peters runs into constitutional limits By Liz Landers, Doug Adams
Politics Dec 07 Trump calls Democratic Rep. Cuellar 'disloyal' for not switching parties after pardon Donald Trump is angry that Rep. Henry Cuellar is running again as a Democrat rather than switch parties after the president pardoned the Texas congressman and his wife in a federal bribery and conspiracy case. By Bill Barrow, Associated Press
Politics Dec 03 Trump pardons Texas Democratic Rep. Cuellar in federal bribery and conspiracy case President Donald Trump has pardoned Texas Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar and his wife in a case brought by federal prosecutors. By Michelle L. Price, Associated Press
World Nov 28 Trump says he plans to pardon former Honduran president serving drug trafficking sentence President Donald Trump said Friday that he will be pardoning former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who in 2024 was convicted for drug trafficking and weapons charges and sentenced to 45 years in prison. By Josh Boak, Associated Press
Politics Mar 18 Fact-checking Trump's claim that Biden pardons are 'void' because he used an autopen Legal scholars say that the Constitution doesn’t require a pardon’s direct human signing, and subsequent judicial decisions and legal memoranda support an autopen’s use for similar purposes. By Louis Jacobson, Amy Sherman, PolitiFact
Feb 10 Trump expected to pardon ex-Illinois Gov. Blagojevich 5 years after commuting his sentence By Zeke Miller, Michelle L. Price, Associated Press Trump already commuted Blagojevich’s 14-year sentence for political corruption charges during his first term. Continue reading
Jan 23 WATCH: Trump signs order recognizing Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, pardons anti-abortion activists By News Desk and Associated Press Trump signed another batch of executive orders in the Oval Office on Thursday, ranging from federal recognition of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina to boosting artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency industries in the United States. He also pardoned anti-abortion activists… Continue reading
Jan 22 Stewart Rhodes, convicted of seditious conspiracy and released by Trump, visits Capitol Hill By Michael Kunzelman, Lisa Mascaro, Associated Press Rhodes, the far-right Oath Keepers extremist group founder, was found guilty of orchestrating a weekslong plot that culminated in his followers attacking the U.S. Capitol in a desperate bid to keep Trump in power. Continue reading
Jan 22 Pardons by Trump and Biden reveal distrust of each other and wobbly faith in criminal justice system By Eric Tucker, Associated Press A day that began with the outgoing president's pardon of lawmakers and his own family ended with the incoming president's pardon of supporters who attacked the U.S. Capitol… Continue reading
Jan 21 WATCH: Trump discusses pardoning Jan. 6 rioters in first news conference By Michelle L. Price, Zeke Miller, Associated Press President Donald Trump on his first full day in office Tuesday defended his decision to grant clemency to people convicted of assaulting police officers during the 2021 attack on the Capitol and suggested there could be a place in U.S. Continue reading