Exercising sympathy for rich, powerful, and prominent criminals, President Trump yesterday granted pardons or commutations to 11 people, including former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, former New York Police Commissioner Bernie Kerik, and Eddie DeBartolo, former owner of the San Francisco 49ers, and the infamous financial criminal Michael Milkin, the junk bond king.

Partial Justice: As fears increase within the Justice Department that the law enforcement arm of the government has become President Trump’s political instrument, more than 1,100 former DOJ prosecutors and officials who served in Republican and Democratic administrations signed an open letter …

Pardon Me: President Trump said yesterday that the prosecutors who recommended 7 to 9 years in prison for his longtime friend and former political associate Roger Stone “ought to apologize.”   “You have murderers and drug addicts that don’t get nine years,” …

National Emergency: President Trump faces a political fight over his declaration of a national emergency to grab billions of dollars for building his southern border wall.   “The Congress cannot let the president shred the Constitution,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority …

Blackface:Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam is facing demands for his resignation after someone dug up his 1984 medical school yearbook featuring on Northam’s page a picture of a man in blackface next to someone in a hooded Ku Klux Klan robe.  …

Swamp Things: One president exits and the other refuses to leave the stage. Memorials have begun for President George HW Bush while President Trump makes himself unforgettable. President Trump was busy on Twitter yesterday attacking the Special Counsel and his …

Nation: Houston authorities found eight people … five children and three adults … dead inside a home after a standoff and a brief gunfight with a man inside the house. Police had been called to do a welfare check at …