Office of Legal Counsel

John Avlon writes that President Donald Trump is serially abusing his pardon power. While the Founding Fathers enshrined a President's right to offer pardons in the Constitution, the use is limited -- at least in comparison to its modern use.

Isaac Chotiner talks to the historian Rick Perlstein about President Gerald Ford's motivation for pardoning President Richard Nixon, whether liberals should care about the health of the Republican Party, and why the Trump siege may have been the culmination of the Barry Goldwater revolution.

15 legal experts explain whether President Trump has the constitutional authority to pardon himself.

We can't repeat President Obama's mistakes: There's no way to move forward without addressing the damage done

The report comes after Biden last week confirmed he was under federal investigation for his 'tax affairs.'

BILL Barr has reportedly dismissed Donald Trump's attacks as a "deposed king ranting" and bullishly said he is not "intimidated" by the President. Sources claimed Barr…

President Trump questioned why the media did not cover Hunter Biden before the election, before again claiming that he won.

Hunter Biden, son of presumptive President-elect Joseph R. Biden, capitalized on a steady influx of suspicious multimillion dollar foreign bank transfers before the Justice Department opened a criminal investigation in 2018 into whether he dodged federal taxes.

During the recent United Nations Annual Forum on Business and Human Rights, two main themes emerged: COVID-19 and climate change. But a third, sobering fact ...

The president-elect's son is under investigation for "tax affairs." But documents unearthed this fall support reports that the inquiry was once much broader.

Hunter Biden, President-elect Joe Biden's son, said Wednesday he's under federal investigation over his tax affairs.

President-elect Joe Biden's son Hunter is under federal investigation for his 'tax affairs,' he revealed on Wednesday. In a statement released by the president-elect's transition team, Hunter Biden said the U.S. Attorney's Office in Delaware on Tuesday advised his legal counsel 'that they are investigating my tax affairs.' 'I take this matter very seriously but I am confident that a professional and objective…

Her name is on the list for this vital role.

Trump faces criminal exposure from the Russia probe and two New York fraud investigations that could reveal potential felonies, Weissmann wrote.

President Donald Trump is running out of ways to overturn his election loss to Joe Biden, but he still has nearly two months to undermine the next administration. The president is fading away from television and Twitter as his election challenges fail in court, but Trump biographer Tim O'Brien wrote for Bloomberg that his administration […]

Michigan Republican legislators Mike Shirkey and Lee Chatfield met with President Trump on Friday, Nov. 20

President Trump's legal team brought forward various accusations of voter fraud during a recent press conference.

After four years of corruption and venality, can the country's law enforcement agency be saved?

Jack Goldsmith, former legal counsel to George W. Bush's White House, says no matter when Trump leaves office, his successor will face tough questions about how to reconstruct the battered presidency.

Secret powers and the presidency