Posted on 03/30/2016 4:29:49 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The White House announced today that President Barack Obama is commuting the sentences of an additional 61 criminals and that he has now commuted the sentences of more prisoners than all of the last six presidents combined.
“We’re all imperfect. We all make mistakes,” Obama said.
“To date, the President has now commuted the sentences of 248 individuals — more than the previous six Presidents combined,” said a statement by the White House. The total includes 92 prisoners who were serving life sentences. […]
But the White House statement made it clear that Obama considers commutations just the first step in a major overhaul of the criminal justice system, including mandatory sentencing guidelines.
“Clemency of individual cases alone cannot fix decades of overly punitive sentencing policies,” it said. …
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We have all made mistakes. Like the people that supported this jerk.
It’s called Voter base building...
He will release all BLM types right before the election. That will be at least a million more votes.
But the White House statement made it clear that Obama considers commutations just the first step in a major overhaul of the criminal justice system, including mandatory sentencing guidelines.
And Obama has unilateral legal authority to do this how?
Caliph Baraq has made the term “lame duck President” completely obsolete (at least for Democrats).
This Musslime-In-Chief will not rest until he destroys our society as we know it. With fewer and fewer people working to pay for those that don’t our economy, what’s left of it, will collapse. IMHO
I long for the days when the acronym only meant Bureau of land management
VJ will get her pardon at Christmas time, by January she will be back in Iran.
Because the GOP congressional majorities that We the People elected to stop all of this nonsense are scared to death of being called racists and, so, let Obama do whatever he wants.
As long as no one says no, he has the authority.
The guilt of assent, whether just by ignoring or by rubber-stamping.
Probably only the ones who have become muslims in prison.
Though I cringe writing this: although he's commuted quite a lot of sentences, he's only pardoned a few. That would seem better than outright pardons. The total (commutations plus pardons) is higher than Bush 41 and Bush 43 -- but so far it's been less than everyone else since Kennedy.
I know exactly how you feel!
It’s good to be a black drug dealer in Obama’s America. Just goes to show that crime does pay.
All for ideology or cash, you can bet on it.
Wow, that is certainly something to be proud of!</S>
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