Kim Kardashian returns to White House to highlight pardons with VP Harris

Reality TV personality and entrepreneur Kim Kardashian was back at the White House Thursday to discuss pardons of non-violent drug offenders with Vice President Kamala Harris — four years after she stood alongside Donald Trump at a similar clemency event.The Biden White House hitched their wagon to the “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” star to promote clemencies for 16 offenders — 11 of whom served prison time and five of whom had their sentences commuted.In addition to starring on Hulu’s “The Kardashians,” the latest iteration of her family’s long-running reality enterprise, the 43-year-old has juggled co-owning the $4 billion SKIMS clothing brand empire with criminal justice reform lobbying.“It was actually this very room that I was in years ago, my first clemency meeting, that really inspired me to take a journey of really helping to figure out how I can be helpful and how I can tell the amazing stories that I would hear from the success stories of individuals like yourself,” Kardashian said at a roundtable with Harris and some of those granted clemency.The celeb teamed up with the Trump White House to promote efforts to ease ex-felons back into the workforce and back the commutation of sentences for four women convicted of non-violent crimes in 2020.“I didn’t know a whole lot,” added Kardashian, who took four tries to pass California’s First-Year Law Students’ Examination — commonly known as “the baby bar exam” — and announced earlier this year that her dreams of becoming a practicing attorney were “on pause.”“I was inspired to go to law school and really further my education to see what I can do to help and not rely on these two women behind — who have been coming with me everywhere, my attorneys — to kind of translate everything for me because I really couldn’t grasp what all of this means,” she said.“I am super honored to be here to share your stories today, and I think it’s so important to share them an...