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Federalist president John Adams pardoned, commuted or rescinded the convictions of 20 people.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.
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 ...
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 ...
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Hit play on the player below to hear the podcast and follow along with the transcript beneath it. ... White House officials are discussing whether Biden should issue preemptive pardons for people ...
Biden announces commutations, pardons: President Joe Biden commutes nearly 1,500 sentences and pardons 39 people A commutation of sentence and pardon are different forms of executive clemency ...
The following is a list of the 75 pardons and 3 commutations by President George H. W. Bush. The list is organized by the date on which President George H. W. Bush granted the pardon or commutation. This list is a subset of the list of people pardoned by a United States 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.