Posted on 08/03/2016 11:04:58 AM PDT by marthemaria
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is cutting short the sentences of 214 federal inmates, including 67 serving life sentences.
The White House says it's the largest batch of commutations on a single day in more than a century. Almost all the prisoners were serving time for nonviolent drug offenses.
The commutations bring to 562 the total number of sentences Obama has shortened. The White House says that's more than the past nine presidents combined. Almost 200 of those who have benefited were serving life sentences.
White House counsel Neil Eggleston says Obama will continue granting clemency to more inmates during the final months of his presidency. He says those receiving commutations were imprisoned under antiquated, overly harsh sentencing laws
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You get a life sentence for dealing large quantities/say 20lbs/ of poison drugs like heroin and meth plus some firearms charges, plus maybe kidnapping and other offenses.
I would love to see exactly what some of these people were given harsh sentences for. What combination of charges got them locked up? No way was it just drug dealing for most of them.
Hopefully he is just making space for he and his staff.
Probably doing a big batch, to conceal a few really problematic ones in the crowd.
There’s no place this low life won’t go - juries - scmuries. eff u O.
“I would love to see exactly what some of these people were given harsh sentences for.”
As would I, but it seems the list of names hasn’t been released.
This I have little issue with, because it is one of the few things he is clearly allowed to do per the Constitution.
It is constitutional, but the names and conviction offenses need to be made public prior to the election so the “This is what democrats do while in the white house” ads can be run in all the swing states.
Just because something is constitutional doesn’t mean it’s automatically right.
Yep. The left has to staff that citizen army they want to use against us.
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