A history of presidential pardons in sport, from George Steinbrenner to the shady brother of Brian Urlacher

This one is kind of technical in the sense that Ali was never pardoned by name, even though Trump publicly pitched the idea in 2018 before eventually dropping the idea. The greatest boxer of all time had called for a religious exemption from armed service during the Vietnam War, but the federal government disagreed and Ali was convicted in 1967 for evasion of conscription. “I don’t have a quarrel with these Vietcongs,” he said at the time. Within two months of this deductible As a result, Ali had been stripped of his heavyweight championship, banned from boxing for three years, and humiliated in the press. In 1970, the United States Supreme Court overturned Ali’s conviction on appeal. In 1977, Jimmy Carter granted a blanket pardon to all Americans found guilty of dodging the project – further justification for Ali.