Posted on 03/21/2015 6:08:47 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
(VIDEO-AT-LINK)
President Barack Obama plans to grant clemency to federal offenders "more aggressively" during the remainder of his presidency, he said in a sit-down interview with The Huffington Post on Friday.
Obama has faced criticism for rarely using his power to grant pardons and commutations. In December, he commuted the sentences of eight federal drug offenders, including four who had been sentenced to life. That brought his total number of commutations to 18.
Obama said he had granted clemency so infrequently because of problems in the Justice Department's Office of the Pardon Attorney. The former head of that office, who was appointed during the George W. Bush administration, resigned in April amid criticism from criminal justice advocates.
"I noticed that what I was getting was mostly small-time crimes from very long ago," Obama said. "It'd be a 65-year-old who wanted a pardon to get his gun rights back. Most of them were legitimate, but they didn't address the broader issues that we face, particularly around nonviolent drug offenses. So we've revamped now the DOJ office. We're now getting much more representative applicants."(continued)
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Guess what that means?
He’s found a way to empty Gitmo of his fellow Muslims?
I just knew this was coming.
He’d have to be very egregious to top Bill Clinton’s final blizzard of shameful pardons.
I have said before that there should be an amendment to the Constitution that the president can NOT give clemency to anyone who is not at least an arms length away from him. You should not be able to pardon anybody who can implicate you in criminal activity.
Pardoned the next day.
Hey, catch and release just means you get to kill them later.
Obama is going to make America cry, and our enemies laugh.
-—He’d have to be very egregious to top Bill Clinton’s final blizzard of shameful pardons.-—
I think it will be 100 times worse. Literally.
Free Mumia?
Mumia??? It could be fairly dangerous to walk on city streets.
OUT-OF-CONTROL executive branch ALERT!
Well a presidential pardon for John Hinkley and returning his rights to own a gun would be interesting.
Other than that I am sure ayatollah obama will be emptying the cells of all muslim prisoners from the 9/11 conspirators to the boston bomber.
A large number of black criminals, many of whom probably are now muslim, are going to be unleashed on the country he grew up hating.
What a thought. I guess he could have opponents killed at will since the President’s pardon power is absolute. He could become a new Saddam Hussein.
Obama must get up every morning wondering just what more he can get away with. (and Clinton was impeached for fooling around with a floozy in a blue dress).
Let terrorists, murderers and rapists go. Lock up Christians, heterosexuals and conservatives.
Guess what that means?
Obama is going to do something Really Stupid
“Obama is going to make America cry, and our enemies laugh.”
We can return the favor.
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