President Trump granted a full pardon to criminal justice reform advocate Alice Marie Johnson more than two years after he commuted her life sentence for a first-time, nonviolent drug offense.
“We’re going to give a full pardon. We are going to do it right now,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Friday. He signed the pardon at 2:12 p.m., which he said changed his action from a commutation to a full pardon.
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