In former President Joe Biden's final hours as the President of the United States, he pardoned members of his family and notable figures like Anthony Fauci and Mark Milley, along with other "J6 Committee" members.
Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) criticized President Biden’s decision to pardon Anthony Fauci, Gen. Mark Milley, former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and other members of the House panel
The statement stressed that the pardons "should not be mistaken as an acknowledgment that any individual engaged in any wrongdoing, nor should acceptance be misconstrued as an admission of guilt for any offense.
The heads of the Jan. 6 committee say they're grateful for the decision by President Joe Biden to pardon them “not for breaking the law but for upholding it.”
Joe Biden in some of his final acts as U.S. president on Monday pardoned Dr. Anthony Fauci, retired general Mark Milley, House committee members who investigated the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and members of his own family.
President Donald Trump used a speech at Emancipation Hall to air out grievances against his rivals after giving his inauguration speech in the Capitol Rotunda.
The pardons shield some of Donald Trump’s biggest political foes from prosecution just hours before his inauguration.
Biden’s last-minute use of his pardon power comes on the heels of another controversial grant of clemency to his son, Hunter Biden, who he absolved of a sweeping list of tax and other crimes committed over a decade-long period.
In former President Joe Biden's final hours as the President of the United States, he pardoned members of his family and notable figures like Anthony ... House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's desk.
The latest flood of pardons — from both Presidents Biden and Trump — can only deepen the cynicism so many have about Washington.
In a 1915 case (Burdick vs. U.S.), the Supreme Court held that the “confession of guilt (is) implied in the acceptance of a pardon” and may be avoided only by rejecting it. After issuing a pardon to former President Richard Nixon, the Gerald Ford White House said that Nixon’s acceptance of it was an admission of guilt in the Watergate affair.
President Donald Trump is hitting the ground running, having signed more than two dozen executive orders and memoranda since his inauguration on Monday. The subject matter of Trump’s executive orders largely mirrors the issues he ran on during his campaign,