Virginia Speaker of the House of Delegates Don Scott says faith and family forged his path to redemption— a journey he hopes inspires anyone who has ever made a mistake.

On his last full day in the White House, President Joe Biden has pardoned Virginia Speaker of the House Don Scott, D-Portsmouth, who served nearly eight years in prison after a 1994 conviction on ...

President Biden used his clemency power today, his last full day of presidency, to pardon 5 individuals, and commute the sentences of 2 others. One of those pardons went to Speaker of the Virginia ...

Leaders of both parties honored 100 Black lawmakers from the Reconstruction era, then turned to modern battles over ...

Virginia House Speaker Don Scott was pardoned Sunday by President Joe Biden for a felony drug conviction Scott received in 1994 while he was a law school student.

RICHMOND — Virginia House Speaker Don Scott (D-Portsmouth) and his wife, Mellanda, were having their coffee and slowly getting ready for church Sunday morning when the phone call that Scott had ...

In 2024, he made history as the first Black Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates. Portsmouth’s Don Scott now Virginia’s first Black Speaker of House Biden’s statement noted that Scott ...

President Joe Biden officially pardoned Virginia House Speaker Don Scott on the 1994 federal drug charges for which Scott ...

President Joe Biden announced Sunday that he pardoned Virginia House Speaker Don Scott for a 30-year-old drug conviction. Scott, a Portsmouth Democrat, was among five people Biden pardoned Sunday.