Trump admin pressed on pardon for ex-Honduras president
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The facts in the cases of Nicolás Maduro and Juan Orlando Hernández are strikingly similar. The men’s fates are not.
Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara is expected to submit a legal opinion arguing that granting the Prime Minister a pardon does not comply with the law.
California Democrat Mike Levin is co-sponsoring a constitutional amendment "to reform the pardon power," he announced on X.
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New motion seeks former Colorado Clerk Tina Peters' release, challenging state after Trump's pardon
President Donald Trump's pardon of former Colorado County Clerk Tina Peters is front and center in a legal battle as she remains jailed on a state conviction.
President Trump said Israeli President Isaac Herzog informed him that he plans to pardon Benjamin Netanyahu amid a long-running corruption trial.
Donald Trump’s pardon of Juan Orlando Hernández, the former president of Honduras, toppled the capstone of one of the most ambitious narcotics investigations in the history of the Department of Justice.
Even some of the president’s closest advisers have been surprised by a number of the recent series of pardons.
Israeli President Herzog rejected Trump’s claim a pardon for Netanyahu is imminent, as the prime minister faces an ongoing corruption trial.
Presidential pardons are broad and powerful. Their history, from the Civil War on, illuminates abuse concerns and how reforms could aid transparency.
Netanyahu, Israel's first sitting prime minister to be charged with a crime, denies the charges dating back to his 2019 indictment.
President Trump took pardon abuse to a new level this year with a string of dubious clemencies that together present a unique case study in how this unfettered executive power can be used to degrade, corrupt and politicize the justice system.