Pardoning in a sentence

Clemency and justice have been top of mind lately, with GOP presidential candidates musing about pardoning people convicted in the violent Jan.

During the annual turkey pardoning ceremony, President Joe Biden honored the late First Lady Rosalynn Carter when giving a speech about Thanksgiving.

His recent comments about attacking judges, pardoning the traitorous attackers from Jan.

In pardoning Mr. Nixon, Mr. Ford was not trying to set a precedent barring future prosecutions of a president, said the historian Richard Norton Smith, whose biography of Mr. Ford, “An Ordinary Man,” will be published next month.

Lindsay, then a household name and troubadour of poetry who tramped across the country three times trading rhymes for bread, eulogized Altgeld’s integrity and bravery for pardoning the Haymarket anarchists.

Now governor, Parson also has become the face of mercy by pardoning more than 600 people in the past three years, more than any Missouri governor since the 1940s.

Parson's pardoning pace in Republican-heavy Missouri coincides with a national movement to restore citizens' rights and reputations after they have served criminal sentences.

Shine said he’d be fine with Trump pardoning himself — if it came to that.

The provincial government could pass a law pardoning anyone who broke provincial restrictions, but no politician or political staffer may call or email prosecutors pressuring them to withdraw or push ahead with any particular case.

There is precedent for one president pardoning another.

At a rally in Texas in January 2022, Mr. Trump, while teasing his eventual presidential bid, said he would consider pardoning those involved in the assault if he were re-elected — a promise he has often repeated.

He praised her measured approach toward Trump — calling out the “chaos” that trails him without attacking him on specifics — and even agreed with her support for pardoning the former president if he is found guilty of crimes.

In effect, Joe is pardoning himself too.

Kostolny said he wouldn’t be in the least bit surprised if Pellegrini begins pardoning some of the dozens of convicted figures from the ranks of the government parties.

Smith proceeded to explain that he — and most people — would’ve been fine with Biden pardoning his son had he just been upfront about his plans to do so all along.

That Hungarian President Katalin Novak has resigned for pardoning a man convicted as an accomplice for helping cover up a sex abuse case in a children’s home is an eye-opener.

He said the government embarked on prison decongestion by pardoning inmate with minor cases to ensure more safety in the prisons across the state.

He told reporters last May he was considering pardoning Martha Stewart.

Moreover, given the past experiences of pardoning of Taliban members by Karzai and Ghani, most of the prisoners joined the Taliban after they were released; the violence never saw any reduction in Afghanistan.

Some people fear that Trump will unleash his presidential power by pardoning family members, closest aides, and perhaps himself.