Overview
- U.S. Pardon Attorney Ed Martin posted the proclamation on X, with some reports noting a Nov. 7 signature and others describing the document as undated.
- The order broadly covers conduct related to creating or advocating alternate elector slates and to efforts to claim voting fraud in the 2020 election.
- Recipients include Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, Sidney Powell, John Eastman, Kenneth Chesebro, Boris Epshteyn, Jenna Ellis and Jeffrey Clark, among others.
- None of those named faced federal charges at the time, making the move largely symbolic now while blocking future federal prosecutions for covered conduct.
- Ongoing state cases in Georgia, Arizona, Nevada, Wisconsin and elsewhere continue unaffected, as the White House defended the pardons as redressing perceived persecution.