in effect
Proclamation 10989, signed by President Donald J. Trump on November 7, 2025, is a presidential pardon issued under Article II, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution. It grants a full, complete, and unconditional pardon to U.S. citizens for actions connected to alternate or contested slates of presidential electors in the 2020 presidential election, and for efforts to investigate alleged voting fraud in that election.
Any federal criminal liability arising from advising, creating, organizing, executing, submitting, supporting, voting for, or advocating for any slate of presidential electors — recognized or not — in connection with the 2020 election is now pardoned. The same applies to conduct related to efforts to expose alleged voting fraud or election security vulnerabilities in the 2020 election. The proclamation names approximately 70 specific individuals as covered, though the pardon’s language is broader and applies to all eligible U.S. citizens meeting the conduct criteria. The Attorney General, working through the Pardon Attorney’s office, is directed to issue pardon certificates to qualifying applicants. The pardon explicitly does not extend to President Trump himself.
The named individuals — who include lawyers, political operatives, Republican Party officials from multiple states, and others who participated in post-2020 election legal or organizational efforts — are directly and immediately covered. More broadly, any U.S. citizen whose conduct falls within the described categories related to alternate elector slates or fraud-exposure efforts in the 2020 election may apply for a pardon certificate through the Pardon Attorney.