Chief Justice John Marshall described a presidential grant of clemency as an “act of grace.” The president’s constitutional power to grant pardons and reprieves descends from the “prerogative of mercy” of English law. Few acts of clemency exemplify the ideals of grace and mercy more fully than President Biden’s historic commutation of the sentences of […]
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