re: How many votes does Trump get from letting felons out early?

Is that the standard for pardons, “is it a good thing for our country”? That seems a bit stupiferous.

I wasn’t talking about pardons. He supported the overall sentence reduction legislation that the dems put through Congress.

The point is that there is no standard, as it’s simply what amounts to a “perk” of the job enjoyed by the President. It’s openly known that reasons for pardons, if you even get a reason, range from doing an old pal a favor, to seeking to correct an injustice. And even those reasons are completely within the purview and discretion of the President. Also I’d point out that a situation that the President may consider a prior injustice might not be our view of a given situation.

But again it’s just completely at the discretion and based on opinion of POTUS. In other words, what we think about it doesn’t really matter. And less and except some seriously irresponsible pardon, say for instance, a violent crime - other than that type situation, JMO here, I just really ain’t concerned about it. Too much other more pressing stuff to be concerned with. And specifically in this instance with the ones you frowned upon, those for sure don’t get me fired up at all.