Sentence examples for first pardons from inspiring English sources

The first nine of those were granted last December, barely avoiding a record set by President George W. Bush for the longest wait for a president's first pardons.

Former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio, for example, received one of Trump's first pardons, with Trump going on to effuse about Arpaio's character.

The first pardons he granted were to people who were still in jail for violating the alien sedition laws, and Jefferson opposed those [in the first place].

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His first pardon went to Joe Arpaio, the Arizona sheriff and a longtime supporter.

President Trump's first pardon went to a wildly divisive sheriff from Arizona.

The advocates say this would be a historic first; pardon power has never been used with immigration law violations.

Government officials contended that she violated the first pardon agreement when she said in a 2008 speech in Sweden that the accord had been politically engineered.

Except for Gov. George E. Pataki's pardon of the comedian Lenny Bruce in 2003, it was the first pardon by a New York governor since 1979.

Consider how Trump decided last August to issue his first pardon, to former Arizona county sheriff Joe Arpaio, a campaign supporter and anti-immigration hard-liner.