COLUMBUS, Ohio—The U.S. Justice Department is moving to fulfill PG Sittenfeld’s attempt to erase his 2023 corruption conviction – but not in the way the Democratic former Cincinnati City Councilman is seeking.

On Monday, Justice Department attorneys asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn PG Sittenfeld’s corruption conviction. That would allow a lower court in Cincinnati to grant federal prosecutors’ request – also filed Monday – to dismiss the indictment against Sittenfeld, given that President Donald Trump pardoned him in May .

Despite his presidential pardon, Sittenfeld has – unusually, if not unprecedentedly – continued to appeal his conviction , arguing that the Supreme Court needs to resolve lower-court confusion over two prior court rulings regarding the line between a

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