The Politics of Presidential Mercy, by Jeffrey Toobin “When it comes to pardons, presidents are kings,” the legal journalist Jeffrey Toobin writes in his new book, “The Pardon: The Politics of ...
In a new book, Jeffrey Toobin makes a convincing case that Ford’s pardon of President Nixon set the stage for unchecked ...
College Football Hall of Fame coach Jim Tressel, who won the 2002 national title at Ohio State University, has been nominated ...
The story of former President Richard Nixon vs. Arthur Burns, his Fed Chair is a tale of a president pressuring the head of the central bank for political reasons. Burns fights it, then capitulates, ...
A transcript of the conversation, which we have verified matches the audio made available through the Nixon Presidential ...
The president’s heavy-handed approach to traditional journalists has the hallmarks of an attempted crackdown 50 years ago.
I do hereby grant unconditional pardons to all United States persons for those offenses against the United States which such ...
Posts saying that a Judge Joseph Barron on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled pardons granted ...
Half a century ago Congress, the courts, other key institutions within and outside of the government, and the American public ...
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A 1974 law requires the president to spend the appropriations passed by Congress or seek its permission to suspend funding.