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Jan 2021

CNN: Trump to drop 100-plus pardons and commutations by tomorrow — but will one have the name Trump on it?

Ed Morrissey Jan 18, 2021 10:05 AM

WaPo: List finalized last night?

Dec 2020

Ho, ho, ho. NY Governor gives Christmas pardons, commutations to illegal aliens, murderers

Jazz Shaw Dec 25, 2020 4:03 PM

Spreading the cheer

Breaking: Trump pardons Manafort, Stone … and Jared’s dad; Sasse: “Rotten to the core”

Ed Morrissey Dec 23, 2020 8:08 PM

“As a result of blatant prosecutorial overreach…”

White House to staffers: Your departure begins on January 4; Update: “Disregard”?

Ed Morrissey Dec 23, 2020 10:04 AM

“Boxing up office supplies and stationery … beginning Monday, December 28.”

Pardonnez-moi? Tiger King sues White House pardon office

Ed Morrissey Dec 17, 2020 11:49 AM

“I can generally be for this just for the meme.”

New York AG: I think Trump will resign so that Pence can pardon him

Allahpundit Dec 09, 2020 12:35 PM

Soon.

Sep 2020

CBS: Sources close to WH worried about a “grift mill” during lame-duck session if Trump loses

Allahpundit Sep 28, 2020 10:01 PM

For sale?

Jul 2020

Some still suspicious that Trump could be his own final pardon

Jazz Shaw Jul 15, 2020 12:31 PM

One and done?

Nov 2019

Dem Senators: We’d like more information on the military Pardons Trump is absolutely allowed to issue

Jazz Shaw Nov 27, 2019 8:01 AM

Everyone has questions

Trump’s war crimes pardons raise eyebrows

Jazz Shaw Nov 16, 2019 1:01 PM

There should be questions

Oct 2019

New York passes law to thwart presidential pardon power

Jazz Shaw Oct 16, 2019 8:41 PM

Good luck with that

Aug 2019

Trump on border wall: Ramming speed

Ed Morrissey Aug 28, 2019 6:01 PM

““Don’t worry, I’ll pardon you.”

Mar 2019

NPR/Marist poll: Mueller-related pardons opposed by majority — of Republicans

Ed Morrissey Mar 29, 2019 4:01 PM

“If they were so badly mistreated, why wouldn’t they be worthy of pardons?”

Former Trump attorney: Mueller’s “an American hero,” investigation not a “witch hunt”

Ed Morrissey Mar 05, 2019 12:01 PM

But “there’s no link to Trump or the campaign.”

Jun 2018

Rudy: This Russiagate thing may well get “cleaned up with some presidential pardons”

Allahpundit Jun 15, 2018 6:41 PM

“You put a guy in jail if he’s trying to kill witnesses, not just talking to witnesses.”

Fox should have a nightly reality show where spouses of the accused beg Trump for pardons

Allahpundit Jun 05, 2018 1:31 PM

Celebrity.

Can the President pardon himself? Obviously

Jazz Shaw Jun 04, 2018 9:21 AM

But then he’d need to get out of Dodge

May 2018

Breaking: Trump gives full pardon to Dinesh D’Souza

Ed Morrissey May 31, 2018 10:01 AM

“I can’t help but think that politics have something to do with it…”

Apr 2018

Trump: Kim Jong-un “very honorable,” Cohen pardon query a “stupid question”

Ed Morrissey Apr 24, 2018 2:01 PM

Iran deal “insane. It’s ridiculous … but we will be talking about it.”

New York plans to thwart future Trump pardons

Jazz Shaw Apr 23, 2018 8:01 AM

And they might be able to do it

Pardoning Jack Johnson is the right thing

Taylor Millard Apr 22, 2018 8:01 PM

Never should have been convicted in the first place.

Schiff: Let’s put some real oversight on Trump’s … pardons?

Ed Morrissey Apr 18, 2018 3:21 PM

Oh, that pesky Constitution again …

Oct 2017

Trump lawyer: Mueller’s safe, I keep telling you

Ed Morrissey Oct 31, 2017 12:01 PM

“There’s no crime of collusion.”

Friendly reminder from CBS: Manafort indictment “not even close” to Trump-Putin collusion allegations

Ed Morrissey Oct 30, 2017 12:01 PM

Almost entirely relates to 2006-14.

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”?