Supreme court allows Texas to use new congressional map favoring Republicans in 2026 elections – as it happened
by Cecilia Nowell, Fran Lawther, Shrai Popat, Maya Ya from US news | The Guardian on (#71XXN)
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Among 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.
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