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Federalist president John Adams pardoned, commuted or rescinded the convictions of 20 people. [3] Among them are: David Bradford, for his role in the Whiskey Rebellion; John Fries, for his role in Fries's Rebellion; convicted of treason due to opposition to a tax; Fries and others were pardoned, and a general amnesty was issued for everyone involved in 1800.
Here’s a look back at some of the presidential pardons given by a sitting U.S. president to his own family. President Joe Biden is seen with his son, Hunter Biden, in Nantucket, Massachusetts ...
President Gerald R. Ford's broad federal pardon of former president Richard M. Nixon in 1974 for "all offenses against the United States which he, Richard Nixon, has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 20, 1969 through August 9, 1974" is a notable example of a fixed-period federal pardon that came ...
List of people pardoned by George W. Bush; List of people pardoned by Bill Clinton; Bill Clinton pardon controversy; List of people granted executive clemency by Barack Obama; List of people granted executive clemency by Donald Trump
President Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of nearly 1,500 people and pardoning 39 others in "the largest single-day act of clemency in modern history," the White House announced Thursday.
The 39 people who were pardoned by Biden had been convicted of nonviolent crimes, mostly drug offenses, and have “shown commitment to making their communities stronger and safer," the president ...
Former President Bill Clinton on his last day in office on Jan. 20, 2001, pardoned his half-brother Roger Clinton, who spent one year in prison on drug charges, according to the Washington Post.
Well, for more than 130 years, the office of Pardon attorney has investigated requests for pardons and advised the president, but the office emphatically points out that the president is the one ...