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.

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 ...

On his last full day in the White House President Joe Biden pardoned Virginia House Speaker Don Scott, D-Portsmouth, who ...

An emotional General Assembly gathering to remember the 100 Black Virginians served in the Virginia General Assembly from the late 1870s to 1890 and in the 1867 constitutional convention.

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.