Category: Politics

As Vice President Pence prepares to preside over Congress’s Jan. 6 session making Biden’s victory official, he faces dueling pressures from his constitutional role and demands by Trump supporters that he derail the process.

The president’s aggressive use of clemency this week showcased his willingness to exert raw power for his own personal gain.

The numbers suggest enormous enthusiasm from Democrats ahead of the consequential Jan. 5 Senate runoffs in Georgia.

That and other ideas are a hard no, say legal and national security experts. Here’s why.

Manafort was one of the marquee names in a large batch of controversial pardons and commutations of sentences that the president announced this week.

Hundreds of thousands of eviction notices have piled up in America’s courthouses during the pandemic

Biden’s desire to work with Republicans could be a bigger challenge than some may have hoped.

Opponents fear policies will allow faith-based organizations liberty to discriminate.

Pardons and commutations went to “cronies” while thousands of applications at the Justice Department are pending.

Among the dozens who have so far benefited from Trump’s executive clemency power are allies and friends of the president or other Republicans, including full pardons to two men who pleaded guilty to lying to federal law enforcement during the Russia investigation

The president once again used his executive power to benefit his allies and undermine an investigation that dogged his presidency.

Many who received the pre-holiday pardons were favored by allies and and Trump’s inner circle.