- Net worth
- Unknown
- Crimes
- fake electors, obstruction, other
- Convicted of
- Preemptive pardon for potential federal charges related to efforts to overturn the 2020 election
- Original sentence
- N/A (preemptive pardon; no federal conviction)
- Time served
- N/A
Background
Jeffrey Bossert Clark is a former Justice Department official who served as Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division from 2018 to 2021 and as acting head of the Civil Division from September 2020 to January 2021. He earned a J.D. from Georgetown University and previously worked at the law firm Kirkland & Ellis, where he represented BP and was known as a climate science skeptic.
The Case
Clark was never federally charged or convicted, but he received a preemptive federal pardon from President Trump in November 2025 as part of a batch of 77 pardons for allies involved in efforts to overturn the 2020 election. The pardon was described as "full, complete, and unconditional" but was largely symbolic since presidential pardons apply only to federal crimes and Clark had no federal convictions.
Clark became central to investigations into efforts to overturn the 2020 election. He was one of the few DOJ lawyers willing to act on Trump's baseless election fraud claims. He drafted a letter in December 2020 falsely claiming the DOJ was investigating "irregularities" in the 2020 election and called for contested states to hold special legislative sessions to secure alternate electoral slates for Trump. Trump sought to install him as acting attorney general, but mass resignation threats from senior DOJ officials prevented this. He resigned from the DOJ on January 14, 2021.
Clark faces criminal charges in Georgia in the state racketeering case against Trump and was an unindicted co-conspirator in the federal election interference case brought by special counsel Jack Smith. He also faced disbarment proceedings before the D.C. Board on Professional Responsibility for his involvement in attempts to overturn the 2020 election. As of March 2025, he serves as Acting Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.
The Pardon
On November 9, 2025, President Trump granted Clark a full pardon along with 76 other allies tied to efforts to overturn the 2020 election. The pardon was issued preemptively, before any federal charges were filed. The proclamation covered conduct "relating to the advice, creation, organization, execution, submission, support, voting, activities, participation in, or advocacy for or of any slate or proposed slate of Presidential electors" in connection with the 2020 election, as well as "efforts to expose voting fraud and vulnerabilities in the 2020 Presidential Election."