>>VA House Speaker Don Scott Receives Pardon From Biden
(Richmond, VA) -- President Joe Biden has given a prominent Virginia politician a pardon for a prior drug conviction. Richard Stelling has more.Preview: Voicer Script:
Biden announced the pardon of Democratic House Speaker Don Scott yesterday. Scott was convicted in 1994 and sentenced to ten years in prison. He went on to be elected to the General Assembly in 2019 and was named House Speaker last year. Scott says he's deeply humbled by the pardon, calling his journey "a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and the transformative power of second chances."