Federal pardons in the United States | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-04

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Federal pardons in the United States


00:01:00 1 Early history
00:01:33 2 Modern process
00:03:22 3 Limitations
00:05:32 3.1 Self-pardons
00:06:55 4 Controversies
00:08:58 5 Symbolic use
00:09:20 6 See also



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A Federal pardon in the United States is the action of the President of the United States that completely sets aside or commutes (lessens) the punishment for a federal crime. The authority to take such action is granted to the president by Article II, Section 2, Clause 1 of the U.S. Constitution, which states, "The president shall ... have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment." The U.S. Supreme Court has interpreted this language to include the power to grant pardons, conditional pardons, commutations of sentence, conditional commutations of sentence, remissions of fines and forfeitures, respites, and amnesties. The pardon can also be used for a presumptive case, such as when President Gerald Ford pardoned Nixon over any possible crimes regarding the Watergate scandal.A president cannot pardon someone for state or local crimes. Experts disagree as to whether a president can pardon himself.