Posted on 07/10/2018 7:50:51 AM PDT by blueyon
President Donald Trump pardoned two Oregon ranchers forced back into prison in 2016 to serve out the rest of the mandatory minimum sentence required under an anti-terrorism law.
“The Hammonds are multi-generation cattle ranchers in Oregon imprisoned in connection with a fire that leaked onto a small portion of neighboring public grazing land,” the White House said in a statement. “The evidence at trial regarding the Hammonds’ responsibility for the fire was conflicting, and the jury acquitted them on most of the charges.
Dwight and Steven Hammond were convicted of committing arson on federal land in 2012 under an anti-terrorism law from 1996. The U.S. District Court judge who sentenced the ranchers believed the mandatory minimum sentence was too harsh, thus both men served short stints in prison.
The Hammonds served their time, but federal prosecutors appealed the case and got a federal court to overturn the 2012 judgement. The Hammonds were forced back into prison in 2016 to serve the rest of their sentences.
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Tremendous! Excellent!
Best. President. Ever.
President Trump comes through again
Why do the DUers on here ever doubt this man?
Wow.
More winning!!
OUTSTANDING!!!!!!!!!
We have the most awesome President in office of my lifetime!
PRESIDENT DO-RIGHT!
I love the timing. The Democrats can fuss about this, but then they can’t bash Kavanaugh! Cloward-Piven has useful variations, the same activists can’t be used for everything simultaneously!
It is fantastic news. This is why this former Cruz-supporter is now quite happy with trusting President Trump. I doubt Cruz would have taken action in a case like this. GWB sure as hell wouldn’t! And “Jeb” would have tried to prolong the sentence.
“Why do the DUers on here ever doubt this man?”
Liberals desire the destruction of this nation.
Liberals grew up angry at their parents. They wanted to prove that their childish ways would work, but their ways don’t work.
Problem is, their parents ways do work.
So, liberals want to destroy their parent’s nation to prove their parent’s ways don’t work.
It is about a childish anger, and if you keep that in mind then everything a liberal does is predictable.
A wonderful contrast from Bush who passed that law they were locked up under. A rancher lighting a backburn to protect his house is not islamic terrorism.
Well, this is encouraging.
WTG!!!!
Lets face it our President is blessed with common sense and appears to know what is fair and square. May the “Forces to be” protect and guide him and bless him with health and a long successful presidency. People like him are far and few in between and don’t come along very often and when they do we better appreciate them.
Well, there’s a quick win.
I wonder what Rip van Sessions thinks of that.
Thanks, Barack!
This is great. But there are a bunch of soldiers and Marines in prison that should have been given a full pardon on day one. Hopefully they are next.
Exactly! But also - would most of the candidates who ran, including Cruz (who I voted for) even NOTICE the injustice? And if they noticed, would they have overruled their big government prosecutors and DONE anything? I think not!
Glad my guy lost the primary...
Greatest President of the 21st Century! Undoing the evil wrought by a politically weaponized Obama FBI & DOJ!
And George Bush never got around to pardoning Scooter Libby, who was a political prisoner pure and simple.
President Trump owes the Bush clan NOTHING, so why did he nominate a Bush associate?
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