Blagojevich was convicted in 2011 on charges that included seeking to sell an appointment to then-President Barack Obama’s old Senate seat and trying to shake down a children’s hospital. Blagojevich ...

Former President Trump has granted a complete pardon to Rod Blagojevich, the former Illinois governor convicted for ...

Former President Donald Trump has granted a full pardon to Rod Blagojevich, the former Democratic governor of Illinois.

Trump commuted Blagojevich’s 14-year sentence in 2020. The former governor had served about 8 years on charges stemming from ...

President Donald Trump on Monday pardoned former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, a Democrat and former contestant on ...

Rod Blagojevich, the ex-Illinois governor convicted of trying to peddle Barack Obama's vacated U.S. Senate seat, speaks ...

Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich says he's “profoundly grateful” after President Donald Trump pardoned him on political ...

Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has been issued a pardon by President Donald Trump, nearly five years after his sentence ...

A House Republican has suggested a resolution that would allow Donald Trump, but not Barack Obama, to run for a third term.

He later moved to Mississippi, where he was appointed to oversee elections ... the Illinois state Senate in 1996, then to the U.S. Senate in 2004 and then was elected President in 2008. Obama ...

In 1992, Obama married Michelle Robinson and entered politics as a member of the Illinois Senate, setting the stage for his ultimate election to the United States Senate in 2004. In 2004 ...