This is the practice of presidents refusing to spend funds that Congress has appropriated, shifting power to the White House.

The White House defied a law that requires giving Congress 30 days’ notice and detailed reasons before removing the watchdog ...

Younger people have told me that Kamala Harris’s defeat felt like 2016 squared. Her loss took me back to 1972, ...

One thing we saw lots of this week as power switched from one political party to the other was presidential pardons.

U.S. presidents have held the right to pardon crimes since the country’s founding, and they have exercised it often with ...

Gerald Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon is now not even among the worst 1,500 in history ... nation’s nearly 250-year history than Ford’s attempt to move on from the Watergate break-in and other ...

The recent flurry of presidential pardons from both former President Biden and President Trump has put a renewed focus on ...

Joe Biden preemptively pardoned his family and others concerned about retribution from Donald Trump. The Constitution says ...

Trump ran on a campaign to explicitly finish the job he started on Jan. 6 and, on his first day in power, he did that as best he could.

Biden issued preemptive pardons, while Trump pardoned Jan. 6 rioters. Over the past several weeks, two U.S. presidents use ...

Iowa City Community Theater (ICCT) premiered its production of Frost/Nixon on Friday night at The James Theater. The play by ...

Joe Biden issued a broad pardon for his son Hunter that not only spared him sentencing on gun and tax charges but also barred ...