Presidential pardons are broad and powerful. Their history, from the Civil War on, illuminates abuse concerns and how reforms ...

President Donald Trump is making full use of his pardon power. This year, Trump has issued roughly 1,800 pardons, or nearly six times the number he issued during the four years of his first term.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) That is, until you remember his predecessor. Joe Biden, at the end of his term, issued ...