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Who is Alice Marie Johnson, Trump’s newly appointed ‘pardon czar’?

Alice Marie Johnson, who had her sentence commuted by President Donald Trump after she served 21 years in prison for cocaine trafficking, speaks during a celebration of the First Step Act in the East Room of the White House Apr. 1, 2019.

Johnson, now 69, was facing life in prison without the possibility of parole for being a first-time nonviolent drug offender.

(Image credit: Chip Somodevilla)

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