Justice Department said a social media post stating that those involved in attacks on Capitol are likely receive pardon from President Donald Trump is fake.
Obama Wants Your Guns As He Releases Gun-Toting, Hardened Criminals Onto Our Streets
August 4, 2016
Yesterday, President Obama commuted the sentences of 214 people serving federal prison sentences. He has now granted a total of 562 commutations. He is releasing violent and often armed drug dealers and calling them non-violent criminals. Many of them are meth dealers. He’s crazy.
A quarter of these people were convicted of firearm offenses, most were drug dealers. These aren’t innocent drug addicts. They are hardened criminals, dangerous criminals, some of whom were sentenced for drug trafficking.
The following heroine dealer is one of the people he released. He, was supposed to serve a life sentence.
Reviewing CJUTF Recommendations: when and how might Biden Administration create an independent clemency board?
Right after the election, I blogged a bit (here and here) about some criminal justice reform recommendations from the Biden-Sanders Unity Task Force (available here pp. 56-62); I stressed in one of those posts that Prez-elect Biden could get started right away in implementing recommendations calling for creating a new Task Force on Prosecutorial Discretion and a Clemency Board. Especially with so much clemency chatter as Prez Trump s term comes to a close, I am eager to again amplify attention on the clemency recommendation. Helpfully, this lengthy new
Trump allies pardoned by president could be legally forced to testify against him, predicts Cohen yahoo.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from yahoo.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
President Donald Trumpâs pardons of some of his closest allies have sparked a political firestorm, but criminal justice reform advocates believe he has done one thing right: sideline the Department of Justice from clemency decisions.
But rather than use that control the way Trump has, those advocates want to see President-elect Joe Biden use it to help nonviolent drug offenders with questionable convictions or harsh sentences.
Relying on the DOJâs Office of the Pardon Attorney to review and make recommendations on clemency requests, they say, is bureaucratic and puts those decisions in the hands of the department that put the offenders behind bars.