Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) is the latest in a growing list of current and former elected U.S. lawmakers who have received clemency from President Trump.

The big picture: A dozen members of Congress — a vast majority of whom are former lawmakers — are part of Trump's not-so-exclusive clemency club as the president has embraced the pardon as a tool of political power. • MAGA-friendly business leaders, celebrities, political allies and hundreds of Jan. 6 defendants have also been shielded by the president's far-reaching clemency power. • Trump has often framed his second-term pardons as righting what he sees as weaponization within the Justice Department under the prior administration.

Context: As Trump has accused his prominent political foes of crimes, he's let members of both parti

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