While Blagojevich served as a Democratic governor and member of Congress, by 2024 he was a full-fledged Trump supporter. He was among the former Democrats to attend the Republican National ...

The legislature taketh away, and the judiciary cannot giveth back.” Blagojevich always had the ability to run for Congress, the U.S. Senate or president, even as an inmate in federal prison ...

During Trump’s first term, every Republican member of Congress from Illinois asked the president not to commute Blagojevich’s sentence. Trump ignored them and did it anyway, helping the ...

Former Republican Tennessee state Sen. Brian Kelsey, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to violate campaign finance law, was ...

Throughout Rod Blagojevich’s race against my late mother, Judy Baar Topinka, for the post of Illinois governor in 2005, campaign advertisements would state, “What is she thinking?” ...

Feb. 14—Just what is it with President Donald Trump's fixation on Rod Blagojevich, the monumentally corrupt former governor of Illinois? First, he commuted the balance of Blagojevich's well ...

Blagojevich, who was the Democratic governor ... Trump’s decision faced opposition from some conservative members of Congress and White House advisers who warned the president that it would ...

On March 15, 44 B.C., on the “ides of March,” Roman dictator Julius Caesar was assassinated by Roman senators, including ...

President Trump on Monday signed a full and unconditional pardon for former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who served eight years in prison on corruption charges until Trump commuted his sentence ...

Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich waves to his friends after giving a press conference at his Chicago home on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020, one day after having his prison sentence commuted by ...