Alice Johnson, Trump’s pardon czar, seen by some as Black political ‘token’ amid controversial pardons
As President Donald Trump announced his pardons for reality television stars Todd and Julie Chrisley during an Oval Office call on Tuesday, his newly minted “pardon czar,” Alice Johnson, stood proudly beside him. Trump pardoned Johnson in 2018 after she served more than 20 years of her life sentence in prison for a 1996 drug trafficking conviction. The Mississippi grandmother became the face of Trump’s First Step Act, a bipartisan law that made several reforms to the criminal justice system, […]