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FILE PHOTO: Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testifies before a Homeland Security Subcom...

Politics Dec 07

Trump calls Democratic Rep. Cuellar ‘disloyal’ for not switching parties after pardon

By Bill Barrow, Associated Press

Politics Dec 03

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testifies before a Homeland Security Subcommittee, in W...
Trump pardons Texas Democratic Rep. Cuellar in federal bribery and conspiracy case

President Donald Trump has pardoned Texas Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar and his wife in a case brought by federal prosecutors.

By Michelle L. Price, Associated Press

World Nov 28

Honduras former President Juan Orlando Hernandez is being transported to the U.S., in Tegucigalpa
Trump says he plans to pardon former Honduran president serving drug trafficking sentence

President Donald Trump said Friday that he will be pardoning former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who in 2024 was convicted for drug trafficking and weapons charges and sentenced to 45 years in prison.

By Josh Boak, Associated Press

Politics Mar 18

U.S. President Donald Trump at the Oval Office in Washington
Fact-checking Trump’s claim that Biden pardons are ‘void’ because he used an autopen

Legal scholars say that the Constitution doesn’t require a pardon’s direct human signing, and subsequent judicial decisions and legal memoranda support an autopen’s use for similar purposes.

By Louis Jacobson, Amy Sherman, PolitiFact

Politics Feb 10

Rod Blagojevich waves to supporters outside his home after U.S. President Donald Trump commuted his prison sentence, in Ch...
Trump expected to pardon ex-Illinois Gov. Blagojevich 5 years after commuting his sentence

Trump already commuted Blagojevich’s 14-year sentence for political corruption charges during his first term.

By Zeke Miller, Michelle L. Price, Associated Press

Jan 23

WATCH: Trump signs order recognizing Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, pardons anti-abortion activists

By News Desk and Associated Press

Trump signed another batch of executive orders in the Oval Office on Thursday, ranging from federal recognition of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina to boosting artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency industries in the United States. He also pardoned anti-abortion activists…

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Jan 22

Stewart Rhodes, convicted of seditious conspiracy and released by Trump, visits Capitol Hill

By Michael Kunzelman, Lisa Mascaro, Associated Press

Rhodes, the far-right Oath Keepers extremist group founder, was found guilty of orchestrating a weekslong plot that culminated in his followers attacking the U.S. Capitol in a desperate bid to keep Trump in power.

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Jan 22

Pardons by Trump and Biden reveal distrust of each other and wobbly faith in criminal justice system

By Eric Tucker, Associated Press

A day that began with the outgoing president's pardon of lawmakers and his own family ended with the incoming president's pardon of supporters who attacked the U.S. Capitol…

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Jan 21

WATCH: Trump discusses pardoning Jan. 6 rioters in first news conference

By Michelle L. Price, Zeke Miller, Associated Press

President Donald Trump on his first full day in office Tuesday defended his decision to grant clemency to people convicted of assaulting police officers during the 2021 attack on the Capitol and suggested there could be a place in U.S.

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Jan 21

Trump’s Jan. 6 clemency releases former Proud Boys leader, Oath Keepers founder from lengthy sentences

By Alanna Durkin Richer, Michael Kunzelman, Associated Press

President Donald Trump's action paved the way for the release of extremist group leaders convicted in major conspiracy cases, as well as people who violently attacked law enforcement officers defending the Capitol.

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