There was, of course, Nixon and Watergate. Reagan and Iran-Contra. Clinton and Monica Lewinsky. Trump and Jan. 6.
One thing we saw lots of this week as power switched from one political party to the other was presidential pardons.
Joe Biden issued a broad pardon for his son Hunter that not only spared him sentencing on gun and tax charges but also barred ...
Joe Biden preemptively pardoned his family and others concerned about retribution from Donald Trump. The Constitution says ...
Nixon died of a stroke in 1994, surviving Pat by exactly 10 months. He and his wife are buried side by side on the grounds of ...
This is the practice of presidents refusing to spend funds that Congress has appropriated, shifting power to the White House.
In the case, Ex parte Garland, the Supreme Court described a president’s authority to pardon as “unlimited except in cases of ...
In his final hours in office, he pardoned Milley, Fauci and the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack.
Reagan was not impeached. Clinton was impeached ... (Gus Ruelas/Dail News) Watergate. Folks associated with Nixon’s 1972 reelection campaign broke into the Democratic National Committee ...
Younger people have told me that Kamala Harris’s defeat felt like 2016 squared. Her loss took me back to 1972, ...