Presidential Pardons Since 1945

The number of presidential pardons and sentence commutations by each administration since 1945:

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A former gambling executive (Alan Maiss) pardoned this week by President Bush contributed $1,500 to the president's 2004 re-election campaign, according to campaign-finance records….In 1995, Maiss pleaded guilty to failing to report a fellow gaming executive's alleged ties to o …

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Pardonable Offenses - From Whiskey Rebels to Jihad Johnny: The Legacy of Presidential Pardons

In 1795 President George Washington pardoned members of what came to be known as the Whiskey Rebellion, exercising his right as President to pardon Federal offenders.

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Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) plans to introduce a Constitutional amendment in the coming months to impose limits on the president's near absolute pardon power, he told an NYU-Harpers forum on justice in the post-Bush era Thursday night.

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Former media tycoon Conrad Black is appealing to US President George W Bush to commute his prison sentence for fraud and obstruction of justice.

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George W Bush is considering issuing pardons for US spies embroiled in allegations of torture just before he leaves the White House.

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I still find it hard to believe that George W. Bush, to his eternal shame and our nation's great discredit, made torture a matter of hair-splitting, legalistic debate at the highest levels of the United States government. But that's precisely what he did.

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Felons are asking President Bush for pardons and commutations at historic levels as he nears his final months in office, a time when many other presidents have granted a flurry of clemency requests. [...]

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Stuart Taylor, Jr., a constitutional law fellow at Brookings, agrees, saying in a recent Newsweek column that investigations into the Bush administration's "high level 'war crimes'" are a "bad idea" and instead called for a "truth commission":

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"Federal archivists at the Clinton Presidential Library are blocking the release of hundreds of pages of White House papers on pardons that the former president approved, including clemency for fugitive commodities trader Marc Rich.

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Financier Marc Rich, businessman Almon Glenn Braswell and Roger Clinton Jr., the president's half-brother, were among the 140 individuals President Clinton pardoned during his last day in office.

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In commuting I. Lewis Libby Jr.'s 30-month prison sentence on Monday, President Bush drew on the same array of arguments about the federal sentencing system often made by defense lawyers — and routinely and strenuously opposed by his own Justice Department.

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Section 1-2.113 Standards for Considering Commutation Petitions

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Whiskey Rebels Confederate Citizens Jimmy Hoffa Richard Nixon Vietnam Draft Dodgers Felt and Miller George Steinbrenner Caspar Weinberger Patty Hearst Marc Rich

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