Let’s not go completely off the rails. There’s no political advantage in doing anything like this and Obama is all about politics.... Always.
Political advantage today depends on what an increasingly crazy liberal body politic wants.
It used to be that conservative sentiment would rein in the worst. Now with Gay America that presumption has gone right out the window.
You don’t think there’s any “political advantage” to freeing and might I add, restoring totally the civil rights of tens of millions of blacks and others? You don’t think that that wouldn’t lock-in those people and their families for the Left for generations to come? Remember, a pardon means voting, gun, civil and all other rights completely restored as if nothing ever happened in the first place. Many of those folks could now work in security, law enforcement, finance, government, military, medical, security clearance and other sensitive jobs. Instant voters, instant gun owners, instant boost to their militancy, etc.
The “obamalaw” thing that was on FR the other day was recommendations on how police departments can do better. BUT - the first and primary thing the committee came up with was that the “problem” (the committee was a result of Ferguson, etc.) wasn’t so much the police departments, but the overall Justice System of the USA.
Just sayin.