Nearly three months after Kim Kardashian asked President Trump to commute the sentence of Alice Marie Johnson, a non-violent drug offender who was set to spend a lifetime behind bars for her first offense in 1996, she’s now setting her sights on another act of clemency. Per Page Six, Kardashian is reportedly working with the White House yet again to pardon a man named Chris Young, who was sentenced to life in prison for marijuana and cocaine possession following a 2010 arrest.

Like Johnson, Young was a first-time offender, which makes his sentence all the more egregious in the grand scheme of the criminal justice system.

Kardashian announced her plans on Jason Flom’s Wrongful Conviction podcast, saying she spoke to the judge who issued the sentence. Interestingly, that judge, Kevin Sharp, would later resign in protest in regards to Young’s case, saying the state of Tennessee forced his hand in the sentencing. “Yesterday, I had a call with a gentleman that’s in prison for a drug case—got life. It’s so unfair. He’s 30 years old. He’s been in for almost 10 years,” Kardashian explained on the podcast. “I was on the phone with the judge that sentenced him to life who resigned because he had never been on the side of having to do something so unfair, and now he is fighting alongside us to get [Young] out.” She also said she’s frequently in contact with President Trump‘s aide and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who she described as “passionate” about prison reform.

Round two of Kardashian’s fight for justice comes after she visited President Trump in the White House earlier this summer, where she was successfully able to convince the president to commute Johnson’s sentence. “I think that he really spent the time to listen to our case that we’re making for Alice,” Kardashian explained after their meeting. “He really understood.” But not without the most bizarre photo op of the year:

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