Patronage pardoning is particularly dangerous because presidents accumulate leverage over time. The president alone has the ...

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said she spoke with President Donald Trump after he floated pardoning the men convicted in a plot to ...

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer spoke with President Donald Trump about his consideration of giving pardons to individuals ...

Gretchen Whitmer is once again trying to smooth things over with President Donald Trump. The Michigan governor, who has drawn ...

Whitmer said President Donald Trump previously told her that he wouldn’t pardon the men convicted of plotting to kidnap her ...

Trump told reporters that he would “take a look at” pardoning the men, saying the trial looked “like somewhat of a railroad ...

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer says President Donald Trump would be going back on his word to her if he pardoned two men who ...

The plotters "got high and ran their mouths," one man's lawyer says. Trump says their trial looked "like somewhat of a ...

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said President Donald Trump previously told her that he wouldn’t pardon the men convicted of plotting to kidnap her in 2020, despite him telling reporters on ...

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D ... During his second term, Trump has deployed pardons in a wide-reaching campaign to recalibrate a justice system he calls corrupt and says has politically ...

a law professor at Michigan State University College of Law, recently told USA TODAY that Trump could pardon Combs and end his trial. "These are federal charges (against Combs), so that’s the ...

"Yes, it could," says Brian Kalt, law professor at Michigan State University College ... The Supreme Court has said preemptive pardons are OK." Trump weighed in on the possibility Friday, May ...