{"id":7782,"date":"2025-02-21T15:48:12","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T15:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/trump-names-alice-johnson-pardoned-in-his-first-term-to-be-pardon-czar\/"},"modified":"2025-02-21T15:48:12","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T15:48:12","slug":"trump-names-alice-johnson-pardoned-in-his-first-term-to-be-pardon-czar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/trump-names-alice-johnson-pardoned-in-his-first-term-to-be-pardon-czar\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump names Alice Johnson, pardoned in his first term, to be &#8220;pardon czar&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>President Trump is tapping Alice Johnson, the 69-year-old grandmother he granted clemency in his first term over long-ago drug offenses, to be his &#8220;pardon czar.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The president made the announcement during a Black History Month event in the White House East Room Thursday afternoon. Johnson spent over 21 years in prison for nonviolent drug-related crimes when Mr. Trump <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-commutes-alice-marie-johnsons-sentence\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">commuted<\/a><\/span> her sentence and she was <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/alice-marie-johnson-released-reunites-family-twitter-video-today-2018-06-06\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">released in 2018<\/a><\/span>. Mr. Trump later issued her a <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-alice-johnson-rnc-speech-pardon-vote-november\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">full pardon<\/a><\/span>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;ve been an inspiration to people, and we&#8217;re going to be listening to your recommendation on pardons,&#8221; Mr. Trump told Johnson on Thursday. &#8221; You&#8217;re going to go over and you&#8217;re going to be \u2014 you&#8217;re going to, she&#8217;s going to be my pardon czar, okay? And you&#8217;re going to find people just like you that should not this should not have happened. It should not have happened. So you&#8217;re going to look and you&#8217;re going to make recommendations, and I&#8217;ll follow those recommendations, okay? For pardons. All right?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Trump said Johnson was &#8220;in prison for doing something that today probably wouldn&#8217;t even be prosecuted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Johnson was convicted in 1996 for &#8220;leading a multi-million-dollar drug ring that dealt in tons of cocaine&#8221;in the early 1990s, according to a report in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newspapers.com\/clip\/7964949\/the_tennessean_nashville_tn_2231997\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Tennessean<\/a>\u00a0at the time. She was tried on charges of cocaine conspiracy and money-laundering charges. She was sentenced to life plus 25 years behind bars.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Celebrity Kim Kardashian was pivotal in bringing Johnson&#8217;s case to Mr. Trump&#8217;s attention.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So far in his second term, Mr. Trump has <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-jan-6-pardons\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">pardoned hundreds<\/a><\/span> of <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/feature\/assault-on-the-us-capitol\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol assault<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/jan-6-defendant-victim-fears-safety-after-pardons\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">participants<\/a><\/span>; Democratic former Illinois Gov. <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/news\/trump-expected-to-pardon-blagojevich\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Rod Blagojevich<\/a><\/span>, who was convicted on public corruption charges related to attempts to sell former President Barack Obama&#8217;s old U.S. Senate seat; and <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-pardons-silk-road-founder-ross-ulbricht\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Ross Ulbricht<\/a><\/span>, who was sent to life in prison for his role in creating and operating the darknet market Silk Road.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Presidents have broad authority to issue pardons and commutations, so long as the crimes are federal offenses and not state ones. Typically, the Justice Department&#8217;s pardon office vets pardon requests for the president to consider, but Mr. Trump thus far has often made his own pardon choices.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__meta--contributors\">\n      <em><\/p>\n<p>                      <span class=\"byline__author__text\">Sara Cook<\/span><\/p>\n<p>        contributed to this report.<br \/>\n      <\/em>\n    <\/p>\n<p>    <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation \"\/><!-- tags --><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author\">\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/kathryn-watson\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Kathryn Watson<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author__bio\">\n<div class=\"content-author__full-information\">\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Kathryn Watson is a politics reporter for CBS News Digital, based in Washington, 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