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From executive orders, bills passed to ongoing public arguments and more: here's how President Trump's second term has ...
Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich's prison sentence has been commuted by President Donald Trump. ABC7 Legal Analyst Gil Soffer sat down to discuss what that means, and what's next for him.
The Reverend Jesse Jackson and his son, Jesse Jackson Jr., are asking President Donald Trump to release former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich from prison.
In Illinois, there are no limits on how many terms a governor can serve. Legislation was previously proposed in 2009 to limit the office to two terms, but that never passed.
Alexander Hamilton promoted the concept of the pardon at the Constitutional Convention. Hamilton wrote in 1788 that without the power to pardon, “justice would wear a countenance too sanguinary ...