Overview
- DOJ pardon prosecutor Ed Martin posted the proclamation and the full list on X, using the phrase "No MAGA left behind."
- The text grants a "total, complete and unconditional" pardon for conduct tied to creating, presenting or supporting alternate presidential electors for the 2020 race.
- High-profile recipients include Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, Mark Meadows, John Eastman, Kenneth Chesebro, Boris Epshteyn and Jenna Ellis, while Trump excluded himself from the measure.
- Because most recipients were never federally charged, the clemency is largely preemptive and symbolic but it blocks future federal prosecutions for covered conduct.
- Democratic critics called the move an abuse of the pardon power, and the pardons do not reach state-level cases such as prosecutions in Georgia or related civil claims.