Rod Blagojevich news
The Republican president signed the pardon on Monday, calling the Democratic former governor “a very fine person.”
Democrat Gov. J.B. Pritzker has been sworn in for the second time as Illinois governor. Pritzker took the oath on Monday, the first Illinois governor to start a second four-year term since 2007.
Ex-con and former Gov. Rod Blagojevich sued his home state Monday for booting him from the governor’s seat after his 2008 arrest for corruption and stripping him of his right to run for elective office in Illinois
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