In a new book, Jeffrey Toobin makes a convincing case that Ford’s pardon of President Nixon set the stage for unchecked presidential power.

That’s what many recent pardons (Paul Manafort, the Biden clan, the January 6 insurrectionists ... Jeffrey Toobin makes a compelling case that a primary culprit is the 38th president, Gerald Ford.

Supreme Court Justices Powell, Blackmun, and Stevens allowed the death penalty to return. Then they disavowed it.

How this unfettered clemency power came to be written into our Constitution and how, in spite of frequent abuse, it seems ...

Protesters gather outside of U.S. Rep. Lloyd Smucker’s district office in East Hempfield Township on Feb. 14, 2025, to voice ...

Bill Murray joked that famed reporter Bob Woodward could have "framed" former President Richard Nixon because his book about ...

Reading Jeffrey Toobin's "The Pardon," which focuses on Gerald Ford's decision to pardon Richard Nixon, the urge to contrast then and now is irresistible, writes Law Journal columnist Joel Cohen in a ...

Woodward, who shared a Pulitzer Prize with Carl Bernstein for the Washington Post’s coverage of the Watergate scandal that ...

Amid the internal crisis of the Democratic Party, historical precedents can both inform and obscure our understanding of how ...

Donald Trump has temporarily removed the iconic Resolute Desk used by his Democratic predecessors Joe Biden and Barack Obama from the ... Other incumbents, such as Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and Ronald ...

Some House Democrats are reportedly planning to disrupt Trump’s upcoming speech to a joint session of Congress.