Theodore Roosevelt modeled himself after Ulysses S. Grant. Franklin Roosevelt was a great admirer of his fifth cousin, Theodore Roosevelt. Lyndon Johnson and Joe Biden aimed to be latter-day Franklin ...

and Richard Nixon, who resigned to avoid being impeached in connection with the Watergate scandal. The rarely-used procedure is spelled out in Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution ...

The revelations came in part from the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan, Danielle R. Sassoon, who resigned rather than heed ...

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 ...

Danielle Sassoon can’t be dismissed as some kind of liberal deep-stater. Her résumé suggests anything but: registered Republican; participant in the Federalist Society; former law clerk to two ...

Theodore Roosevelt modeled himself after Ulysses S. Grant. Franklin Roosevelt was a great admirer of his fifth cousin, Theodore Roosevelt. Lyndon Johnson and Joe Biden aimed to be latter-day ...

Blagojevich was commuted after serving nearly eight of his 14-year sentence in February 2020, during President Trump's first ...

In one of several affidavits filed on the night of February 11th, Joseph Gioeli, a Treasury official in charge of technology ...

The spotlight on the judiciary is brighter because the Republican-controlled Congress has essentially abdicated its role of ...

"The president does not have unilateral authority to shut down an expenditure, or instrumentalities funded by Congress, ...

President Donald Trump on Monday pardoned former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, whose 14-year sentence for political corruption charges he commuted during his first term.

Recent court orders slowing down or indefinitely blocking President Donald Trump’s policy blitz have raised the specter that the executive branch might openly flout the federal judiciary and prompted ...