pardons on HotAir

Sep 2017

Someone wants to “overturn” Trump’s pardon of Arpaio

Jazz Shaw Sep 19, 2017 8:01 AM

That’s not how this works

Aug 2017

CNN ponders: why aren’t the SCOTUS justices attacking Trump?

Jazz Shaw Aug 28, 2017 4:31 PM

Um… because they’re not supposed to be political?

Jan 2017

It’s time to grant clemency for Kristian Saucier, President Trump

Ed Morrissey Jan 25, 2017 4:31 PM

The power and the injustice.

Who else will get clemency in Obama’s final hours?

Ed Morrissey Jan 18, 2017 8:41 AM

Last gasp.

The clemency train is ready to pull out from the station again

Jazz Shaw Jan 17, 2017 2:31 PM

All is forgiven, my children

NBC: Chelsea Manning on short list for commutation?

Ed Morrissey Jan 11, 2017 12:01 PM

Rehabbing Wikileaks?

Dec 2016

Latest on the pardon-request pile: Snowden, Manning

Ed Morrissey Dec 30, 2016 12:01 PM

Bad timing?

Nov 2016

The latest hot pardon rumor: Trump pardons Julian Assange?

Jazz Shaw Nov 16, 2016 12:41 PM

Politics make strange bedfellows, but not this strange

Aug 2016

Barack Obama commutes the sentences of more than fifty felons with firearms violations

Jazz Shaw Aug 04, 2016 8:01 AM

But we have to get serious about guns…

Mar 2015

New plan: maybe Obama could just pardon Hillary

Jazz Shaw Mar 19, 2015 1:21 PM

Problem solved!

Apr 2014

DoJ guidelines on Obama drug-war clemency: 10 years in prison minimum

Ed Morrissey Apr 23, 2014 12:01 PM

No “significant” ties to gangs or cartels?

Obama planning expansion of clemency for “thousands” of non-violent offenders

Ed Morrissey Apr 22, 2014 2:01 PM

Seeking justice or an end-run around Congress?

Aug 2013

Manning to seek presidential pardon: attorney

Ed Morrissey Aug 22, 2013 8:01 AM

Good luck with that.

Why no use of pardon power in Obama administration’s war-on-drugs shift?

Ed Morrissey Aug 16, 2013 12:41 PM

“Obama the Unmerciful”?