Possible Trump Pardon Overshadows Assange Extradition Ruling
- Assange faces U.K. ruling on U.S. extradition request Monday
- WikiLeaks founder may have better chance of getting a pardon
Julian Assange has been in custody or self-imposed exile in London for the better part of a decade.
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A U.K. judge will rule Monday on whether WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should be extradited to the U.S. to face criminal charges after weeks of talk about a possible pardon from Donald Trump.
The decision from a London judge will come after President Trump, whose administration brought the charges, issued a plethora of pardons to political allies. And lawyers say the odds of clemency from Trump are better than a judge buying Assange’s arguments that his human rights will be trampled on in America.