Posted on 06/06/2018 9:19:56 AM PDT by GIdget2004
President Trump has signed a pardon for Alice Johnson, currently serving a life sentence for a nonviolent drug offense, according to a source with direct knowledge. CNN first reported earlier today that the White House had prepped the paperwork for Johnson's pardon.
The details: Johnson's cause was championed last week at the White House by Kim Kardashian West. White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, who pushed for Johnson's pardon, had been in contact with Kardashian West over the past several months on the issue. Per a source familiar, White House counsel Don McGahn is skeptical of the merits of pardoning Johnson.
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Coffee does not alter the mind. It awakens it. <^..^>
You obviously haven't tried Darksheare's coffee
Beat me to that, good info, thanks.
We have on the surface totally opposite views, but I wonder if that’s so. I suspect that legal drugs often do as much or more harm than the street drugs do. A world where people had to make responsible decisions for themselves and be held accountable for their choices would be fine by me. I’m a Conservative, but have a fondness for Libertarian views.
Good. I was hoping the President would do this.
It was an outrageous sentence when so many murderers and rapists are serving little prison time.
“A life sentence seems pretty harsh for any first-time offense, other than malicious homicide.”
I agree with you. I have seen murderers receive a lot less time in prison.
A pardon is WRONG. Commutation is appropriate.
How could this be? I thought Trump was a racist AND a sexist?
whether it’s a legit or suspect pardon it serves the purpose of pandering to a certain voting demographic.
Agreed.
“Johnson is now 21 years into her life sentence at FCI Aliceville, in Aliceville, Alabama.
During her time in prison, Johnson has displayed exemplary behavior, become an ordained minister, a published writer and a prison tutor”
Time served! It’s enough. Obviously, has turned her life around.
As a Conservative living in Illinois, I agree. 14 years was way too much for the alleged "crime" Blago did. I argue it wasn't even a crime, he did the same thing every other politician in Illinois does.
The fact that George Ryan (previous Governor) got FAR LESS in the Licenses for Bribes scandal during which more than a dozen people were killed by primarily illegal immigrant truck drivers who BOUGHT their CDL's at the Secretary of State office that Ryan ran is just sickening.
Free Blago. Jail Ryan AGAIN!
“We all have feelings on the subject and these days the biggest drug dealers addicting Americans are all publicly traded corporations.”
PREACH!
Purdue Pharmaceuticals makes Oxy, which is literally killing the US right now. They knew the properties, and FDA did too and approved it anyway.
FDA is a rock that needs serious turning.
Though Johnson petitioned former President Barack Obama for clemency three times, she was always denied.
I guess the check wasn’t big enough.
Even though her arrest in 1993 was her first offense, Johnson received a life sentence, which she began serving in 1996. During the trial ten of her co-defendants testified against her in exchange for a reduced or dropped charges, Mic reports. Johnson, however, did not receive the same mercy, despite having not previous drug charges.I'm suspecting that she refused to testify against her co-defendants, and the prosecutors decided to make an example of her. Personally, I think 20 years so far, is time enough served.
She was a telephone mule-passing messages between buyer and seller. Life seems a bit much.
“biggest drug dealers addicting Americans are all publicly traded corporations”
Woah up, there, Refrigerator.
Lots of people need opiates just to fiction at a minimal level. This prescription-drug hysteria is making it harder for us to get what we need.
[You and I are evidently in the minority here. But I agree with your sentiments. This woman was not imprisoned for possession. She was imprisoned for trafficking.]
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