Speculation has swirled over whom President Trump may pardon before leaving office. But why do presidents have the right to pardon, and how should it be used?
President Donald Trump has commuted the prison sentence of his friend and ally Roger Stone.
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A former lawyer for the US House of Representatives explains the constitutional and historical limits barring Congress from checking the president’s clemency powers.
The arrest of Flora Drummond, and Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst in 1908.
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