Trump Invents the Corporate Pardon

Trump Invents the Corporate Pardon

“Corporations are people, my friend,” Mitt Romney famously said in 2011 while running for president. The Supreme Court decided the previous year that corporations could give money to political campaigns, just like people, and in 2014 the high court gave corporations religious freedom to deny contraceptives to employees, thereby letting them behave just as badly as people. If you prick corporations, do they not bleed? Actually no, they don’t. But…

Disgraced former Gov. Blagojevich wants Trump to pardon a politician on the lam in Greece

The former Illinois governor, himself pardoned by Trump, has turned to pardon lobbying. His latest cause is a former Indiana councilman convicted in a vote-buying scandal.

Blagojevich Wants Trump to Pardon Politician On the Lam

“Rod Blagojevich, the former Illinois governor President Donald Trump pardoned last year on federal corruption charges, is now seeking clemency on behalf of a similarly disgraced political figure: a suburban Chicago councilman who authorities say fled the country just days before his 2005 sentencing in a vote-buying scheme,” NBC News reports.