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How much does a pardon cost these days?
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Love the refrain from the Trumby groupies. Trumby gets called out for his corruption and you guys scream OBAMA!!!!
Obama pardoned 212 and commuted 1,715, nearly all at the end of his second term. Tell me, how many of them donated to Obama’s re-election campaign?
How many will Trumby pardon at the end of his presidency ?
GOP Campaign Donor in Texas Among President Trump's Pardons
One of President Donald Trump's clemency actions Tuesday included pardoning the former owner of a Texas construction company who pleaded guilty to underpaying his taxes and whose family has donated to Republicans, including the president's reelection campaign last year.
Trump pardoned a construction company owner whose family donated over $200,000 to his campaign
Trump pardoned and commuted sentences for nearly a dozen convicted individuals on Tuesday, including former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
www.businessinsider.com
| “President Trump has his own unusual approach to granting clemency. He tends to focus on famous people, especially those with ties to him — while also commuting the sentences of a small number of more typical prisoners who have a strong case for leniency. |
| If you want to read people debate the wisdom of the 11 specific pardons and commutations Trump issued yesterday, I’ve recommended several pieces below. |
| I’d like to focus on the broader picture — namely, the importance of pardon power in a criminal justice system as flawed and unfair as ours. |
| Roughly two million Americans are waking up behind bars this morning. The incarceration rate in the United States is more than twice as high as that of Brazil; more than four times higher than in Britain or Mexico; almost six times higher than in China; and almost 15 times as high as in Japan. |
| A central reason for American mass incarceration is the long prison sentences in our criminal codes, even for some nonviolent offenses. A second reason is the infrequency and arbitrariness of parole, as Jennifer Gonnerman documented in a recent New Yorker story. A third reason — arguably the least common but most outrageous — is wrongful conviction. |
| Clemency is rarely an easy decision for a president or governor, because it involves freeing somebody convicted of breaking society’s rules, sometimes violently so. But in a legal system that errs far too often on the side of harshness, clemency is vital. It’s a way to correct abuses, albeit one case at a time, until true criminal justice reform can occur.” NY TIMES |
You are the worst hypocrite around here, don't want people to notice keep your idiocy to yourself.
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Does your post mean that presidents are not allowed to commute someone's sentence if the person contributed to the president politically?
Blagojevich served 8 years of a 14 year sentence for trying to sell Obama's old senate seat. Blagojevich was a democrat, and what he did is common practice in the Democrap party. A presidential pardon would say that a president believed the recipient to be innocent.Trump did not pardon Blagojevich. He commuted Blagojevich's sentence. That says Trump thought Blagojevich's sentence was too harsh for his crime. I agree with Trump.
Blagojevich's crime lies in running afoul of Obama and his goose-stepping Justice Department goons.
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Does your post mean that presidents are not allowed to commute someone's sentence if the person contributed to the president politically?
Blagojevich served 8 years of a 14 year sentence for trying to sell Obama's old senate seat. Blagojevich was a democrat, and what he did is common practice in the Democrap party. A presidential pardon would say that a president believed the recipient to be innocent.Trump did not pardon Blagojevich. He commuted Blagojevich's sentence. That says Trump thought Blagojevich's sentence was too harsh for his crime. I agree with Trump.
Blagojevich's crime lies in running afoul of Obama and his goose-stepping Justice Department goons.
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Maybe trump doesn't want to win but he can't bring himself to quit?
He wants the voters to put him out of his misery?
He wants the voters to put him out of his misery?