3 h. ago Supreme court allows Texas to use new congressional map favoring Republicans in 2026 elections – US politics live

Ruling will impact elections as soon as the March primariesUS supreme court approves redrawn Texas congressional mapsAmong the beneficiaries of Donald Trump’s pardons and commutations, there is a group that legal experts and political scientists see as some of the clearest evidence of how such actions undermine the rule of law: those who were released from prison and again arrested for different alleged crimes.During his first term, Trump issued 237 acts of clemency – including to someone who was a predatory lender and drug smuggler and to another who ran a Ponzi scheme. Since taking office again, Trump has issued more than 1,600, most for people involved in the January 6 attack on Congress. Continue reading...

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18 h. ago Trump pardons entertainment executive charged by president’s own Justice Department

Businessman Tim Leiweke becomes latest person to benefit from President Donald Trump’s sudden rush to grant clemency orders

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27 h. ago Trump’s latest pardon confuses Capitol Hill–and makes Mike Johnson’s job harder

Trump’s action is just the latest sign he is largely checked out in terms of helping Republicans after he’s gone, Eric Garcia writes

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29 h. ago Arkansas attorney general says pardoned nursing home operator should serve state sentence

Attorney General Tim Griffin has asked a judge to send Joseph Schwartz, a former nursing home operator pardoned by President Trump, to an Arkansas prison for Medicaid fraud and tax evasion

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35 h. ago Biden derangement syndrome? Trump pardons Democrat to get back at former president

Cuellar and his wife had been facing bribery and conspiracy charges since last year

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36 h. ago Is Trump keyboard mightier than the ‘autopen’? President declares ‘void’ all Biden orders and pardons not signed by hand

If implemented, Trump’s Truth Social decree would cancel longstanding sanctions on Russia and other adversarial states

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50 h. ago Donald Trump cancels all Joe Biden pardons as 'null and void' in another shot at former president

The 47th president of the United States has taken to his own social media platform to tell the he has nixed 'any and all Documents' signed by Biden with autopen.

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51 h. ago Trump claims to void all documents signed by Biden, citing autopen use

Presidents of both major parties have used the device and experts called into question legality of Trump’s move Donald Trump said on Tuesday he is terminating all documents, including pardons, that he said his predecessor Joe Biden signed using an autopen – an unprecedented attempt to rollback a previous president’s actions using what legal thinkers view as a flimsy pretext.The autopen is a device used to replicate a person’s signature with precision, typically for high-volume or ceremonial documents. It has been employed by presidents of both major parties to sign letters and proclamations. Continue reading...

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51 h. ago Trump terminates all documents, including pardons, signed by Joe Biden

US president claims predecessor’s use of autopen, used by presidents of both major parties, invalidates his actions Donald Trump said on Tuesday he is terminating all documents, including pardons, that he said his predecessor Joe Biden signed using an autopen.The autopen is a device used to replicate a person’s signature with precision, typically for high-volume or ceremonial documents. It has been employed by presidents of both major parties to sign letters and proclamations. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Benjamin Netanyahu corruption trial: What is Israeli PM accused of and could he be pardoned?

Israeli leader is accused of receiving hundreds of thousands of pounds of champagne and cigars

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3 d. ago EU warns Trump that Ukraine peace plan must not pardon Putin for war crimes

Concerns are growing in Europe over a US proposal which suggested a ‘full amnesty for actions committed during the war’

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3 d. ago Trump sparks fury as he frees $1.6 BILLION fraudster just days into seven

Gentille spent just 12 days in jail after being sentenced to seven years in August of 2024 for his role in a scheme to defraud more than 10,000 investors of over a billion dollars.

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4 d. ago Trump frees New York private equity executive who defrauded victims of $1.6B

The news was announced on Thanksgiving by Trump’s “pardon czar”

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4 d. ago Netanyahu asks Israeli president to pardon him in corruption trial weeks after Trump sent letter over ‘unjustified’ case

ISRAELI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has submitted an official request to his president to be pardoned over his corruption trial. The plea comes just weeks after Donald Trump sent a letter to President Isaac Herzog urging him to "fully pardon" his ally. Netanyahu's major corruption trial centres around allegations of bribery and fraud. His official...

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4 d. ago Netanyahu submits pardon request to Israeli president Herzog

Donald Trump has also written a letter urging Herzog to consider pardoning Benjamin Netanyahu

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5 d. ago MIKEY SMITH: 7 unhinged Donald Trump moments as he openly meddles in another country's election

Donald Trump spent the weekend after Thanksgiving meddling in elections and pardoning a drug trafficker - two of the things he claims to hate most in the world

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6 d. ago Trump to pardon drug trafficking former Honduran president saying he was treated 'very harshly and unfairly'

President Donald Trump on Friday made a major intervention into Honduran politics days before the country's presidential election, pardoning a convicted ex-leader.

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8 d. ago Trump pardons Gobble and stranded beluga whales: photos of the day – Wednesday

The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Trump jokes some of his staff wanted to send turkeys to ‘torture’ prison

President Donald Trump joked that some of his “more enthusiastic staff” wanted to send the two Thanksgiving turkeys to an El Salvador megaprison instead of pardoning them.

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8 d. ago Karoline Leavitt’s son steals limelight at White House turkey pardoning

Karoline Leavitt brought her son Nicholas to meet Waddle, one of the National Thanksgiving turkeys, prior to the pardoning ceremony with Donald Trump on Tuesday, 25 November.

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