London — A UK judge will on Monday rule on whether WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should be extradited to the US 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. 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 the US...
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