Virginia Speaker of the House of Delegates Don Scott says faith and family forged his path to redemption— a journey he hopes inspires anyone who has ever made a mistake.

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President Biden used his clemency power today, his last full day of presidency, to pardon 5 individuals, and commute the sentences of 2 others. One of those pardons went to Speaker of the Virginia ...

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As President Joe Biden approaches the end of his term, he has announced a series of last-minute commutations and pardons, ...

On his last full day in the White House President Joe Biden pardoned Virginia House Speaker Don Scott, D-Portsmouth, who served nearly eight years in prison on a drug-related offense.

Mr. Biden’s pardons in recent days come after the president made the largest single-day act of clemency in modern history in ...

President Joe Biden officially pardoned Virginia House Speaker Don Scott on the 1994 federal drug charges for which Scott previously served eight years in prison.