A former Republican Tennessee lawmaker says President Donald Trump has pardoned him two weeks into his 21-month prison sentence for an illegal campaign finance scheme. Former Sen. Brian Kelsey announced on social media Tuesday that he received a “full and unconditional pardon” for the scheme that he pleaded guilty to in 2022, before he tried and failed to take back his plea. He reported to a federal minimum security facility in Ashland, Kentucky, late last month. Kelsey pleaded guilty in November 2022 to charges related to his attempts to funnel campaign money from his state legislative seat toward his failed 2016 congressional bid. He had tried unsuccessfully to rescind the plea and raise other claims on appeal.

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin has granted clemency to a fired police sergeant who shot and killed an unarmed man accused of stealing sunglasses. Former Fairfax County police Sgt. Wesley Shifflett was sentenced to three years in prison on Friday after he was convicted of recklessly handling a firearm during the 2023 foot chase and shooting of Timothy McCree Johnson. Youngkin said in a statement Sunday that he was convinced the court’s sentence of incarceration was unjust and violated the notion that similarly situated people should receive proportionate sentences.

Cousins of Erik and Lyle Menendez spoke out to criticize the Los Angeles district attorney’s recent decision to oppose a new trial for Lyle and Erik Menendez, who have spent nearly 30 years in prison for the 1989 killing of their parents. They applauded California Gov. Gavin Newsom for his decision a day earlier to order the state parole board to investigate whether the brothers would pose a risk to the public if they are released, the first step for the governor to eventually decide whether or not to grant clemency.

A federal judge has criticized the Justice Department’s evolving position that a presidential pardon for a Kentucky man who stormed the U.S. Capitol also covers his conviction for illegally possessing guns at his home. U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich on Wednesday pressed a prosecutor to explain why the department abandoned its initial conclusion that Daniel Edwin Wilson must report back to prison because it didn’t believe that his pardon for the Jan. 6, 2021, riot extended to his firearms convictions. A prosecutor said department officials recently clarified that Trump intended for Wilson’s pardon to cover his firearms convictions.