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Barak Obama pardoned/commuted 1927 people ...330 in one day
Posted on 6/7/18 at 11:41 am
Posted on 6/7/18 at 11:41 am
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By the end of his presidency on January 20, 2017, Barack Obama had exercised his constitutional power to grant executive clemency—that is, "pardon, commutation of sentence, remission of fine or restitution, and reprieve"[1]—to 1,927 individuals convicted of federal crimes. Of the acts of clemency, 1,715 were commutations (including 504 life sentences) and 212 were pardons.[2] Most individuals granted executive clemency by Obama had been convicted on drug charges,[3] and had received lengthy and sometimes mandatory sentences at the height of the War on Drugs.[4] Obama holds the record for the largest single-day use of the clemency power, granting 330 commutations on January 19, 2017, his last full day in office.[5][6] He also has issued more commutations than the past thirteen presidents combined.[2][7]
Obama's use of executive privilege
Trump needs to pick up the pace
This post was edited on 6/7/18 at 11:44 am
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Posted on 6/7/18 at 11:44 am to mattloc
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Trump needs to pick up the pace
I'd be ok with Trump pardoning non-violent drug offenders at the same rate as Obama.
Posted on 6/7/18 at 11:45 am to mattloc
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Barak Obama pardoned/commuted 1927 people ...330 in one day
yet he left the poor first-offender black grandmother to rot in jail for life.
OBAMA HATES BLACK PEOPLE!
Posted on 6/7/18 at 11:46 am to mattloc
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Most individuals granted executive clemency by Obama had been convicted on drug charges,[3] and had received lengthy and sometimes mandatory sentences at the height of the War on Drugs
Generally speaking who has a problem with this?
Posted on 6/7/18 at 11:47 am to mattloc
Was HRC one of them?
Posted on 6/7/18 at 11:49 am to mattloc
quote:Yet he left poor Alice Johnson to rot in jail.
Barak Obama pardoned/commuted 1927 people ...330 in one day
Posted on 6/7/18 at 12:01 pm to mattloc
And expectedly, you have idiocy such as this from from the Vox thread:
quote:
It’s also a flagrant example of the president using one of his few virtually unlimited powers to reward political allies and celebrity friends — and that should trouble even the most ardent supporters of Johnson’s commutation.
Posted on 6/7/18 at 12:04 pm to mattloc
I’m happier with a quality over quantity argument on this one.
Posted on 6/7/18 at 12:31 pm to mattloc
Non violent drug offenders > swamp creatures like rod blagojevich or the self pardon.
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