presidential pardons

The U.S. House is moving forward quickly with a second impeachment of President Trump, but what happens next? Jared Carter, a constitutional law scholar at Vermont Law School, joined LX News to break down the congressional options to penalize Trump for his role in the deadly U.S. Capitol riots.

As President Trump’s administration winds down, speculation is turning to which family members or aides he may choose to pardon in his last days in the White House. Jeffrey Crouch, an expert in presidential politics at American University, joined LX News to explain how far Trump’s powers extend. (Spoiler alert: Pretty far.)

A Trump campaign fundraiser and a lawyer for the president’s son-in-law Jared Kushner were involved in an effort to get a pardon from the White House at the behest of a wealthy octogenarian in the early days of the Trump administration, lawyers for the two men told NBC News. Elliott Broidy, the fundraiser who has since pleaded guilty in a separate lobbying case,...

President Donald Trump has been discussing the possibility of issuing pardons for his family members and some close associates, multiple sources familiar with the matter told NBC News.