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This impeached, one-term president refused to go to his successor’s inauguration. Now Trump will do the same. Ronald G. Shafer The peeved president decided to skip his successor’s inauguration ceremony. The year was 1869, and the president was Andrew Johnson, who detested incoming President Ulysses S. Grant. The feeling was mutual. Grant refused to ride in the same carriage with Johnson to the Capitol. Now the country faces a much uglier transfer of power between President Trump, who maintains the election was stolen from him, and Joe Biden. On Thursday night, a...

As it Were: Statue of Cornelia and her jewels honor Ohio leaders Ed Lentz Guest Columnist On the northwest corner of Capitol Square in downtown Columbus, a large piece of statuary sculpture will capture the attention and interest of many people making their way to and from the Ohio Statehouse.  At the top of the monument is a larger-than-life figure of a woman in a flowing dress with her arms open in welcome to the attention of no less than seven figures standing around the base of the statue. The figures are labeled for the uninformed but are probably known to many. 

Join Executive clemency wasn’t meant to be controversial. The Constitutional power to “grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States” was intended for acts of compassion. In the Federalist Papers (no. 74), Alexander Hamilton wrote that justice could seem too cruel, too brutal if it never made exceptions for the “unfortunate” guilty. An act of clemency, he said, might “restore the tranquility of the commonwealth.” And since groups of men too often encouraged each other to be stubborn and harsh, “one man appears to be a more eligible dispenser of the mercy ...