Image: from Oath Keepers, Proud Boys leaders out of prison after Trump Jan. 6 pardons.

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January 20.   Martin Pengelly & Rachel Leingang: Trump issues 1,500 ‘unconditional’ pardons over January 6 Capitol attack.

June 17.   House Committee on the Judiciary: New Judiciary Democrats Analysis Reveals Trump’s Corrupt Pardon Spree Cheated Crime Victims of $1.3 Billion.

January 21.   Ruth Ben-Ghiat: Why Autocrats Love Pardons.

May 27.   Ben Shpigel: Trump Pardons Reality-Show Couple Convicted of $36 Million Fraud.

May 27.   Kenneth P. Vogel: Trump Pardoned Tax Cheat After Mother Attended $1 Million Dinner.

June 11.   Emily Davies and Perry Stein: What it takes to get a Trump pardon: Loyalty, connections or the pardon czar President Donald Trump’s revamped clemency process has often disregarded the Justice Department’s guidelines.

October 24.   Bobby Allyn: Trump pardons jailed Binance founder who supported Trump family crypto business.

November 10.   Richard Luscombe: Trump pardons Giuliani, Meadows and others over plot to steal 2020 election: Federal clemency towards president’s close allies largely symbolic as some still face legal exposure at state level.

November 10.   Steve Inskeep: Trump issued pardons to allies linked to the 2020 election efforts. What that means.

November 11.   Peter Stone: ‘A classic authoritarian tactic’: outrage over Trump’s pardons for friends and allies: Ex-prosecutors and legal scholars say US president ‘meting out pardons for blatantly corrupt and self-serving ends.’

November 23.   Michael Kranish & Aaron Schaffer: The case of a felon who paid lobbyists nearly $1 million to seek a Trump pardon: Nursing home magnate Joseph Schwartz was sentenced in Aprilto three years for defrauding the government of $38 million. Seven months later, Trump pardoned him, but the White House denies a lobbying tie.