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CNN Legal View With Ashleigh Banfield June 25, 2014 16:23:00

Means that the pension is property that he has earned, that he is entitled to, just like he is entitled to stock benefits. so it s basically an issue of timing more than anything. yes, but here s the other thing. i think sara, you weigh in on this too. there s letter of the law, there s the spirit of the law. given this be n this is a reco and a board will look, i will be shocked if they don t find a way to be able to strip him of his pension. could they basically try to strip him of this or, if nothing else say, okay, thanks, penn state, keep paying the pension because it s coming right to us, that s a possibility, right? they re talking about today whether or not this should be retroactive. lawmakers could decide to make this retroactive. another thing they re saying, he penn state benefited from him volunteering for and doing ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140603:02:39:00

You pointed out, the inmate has to have served ten years. it has to have been a first offense that they were incarcerated for. it has to involve a non-violent low-level drug offense. they have to have perfect prison records. and they have to have never been associated with any gang violence or anything of that nature. and they also have to be eligible if the 2010 act were retroactive, to have been sentenced differently than they were originally. that is a very i don t know how many people were talking about it. it could be out of the 20-some thousand or more or maybe 40,000 people. it could be maybe a small percentage of that. but we need to go forward with this. no, judge, i appreciate you raising the criteria. that s of course what would be applied. and that is really what is ultimately sick here. whatever the motivations, the republican plan would basically try to use less expertise, fewer lawyers to do a thing that the president could do either way. ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140603:05:39:00

Offense that they were incarcerated for. it has to involve a non-violent low-level drug offense. they have to have perfect prison records. and they have to have never been associated with any gang violence or anything of that nature. and they also have to be eligible if the 2010 act were retroactive, to have been sentenced differently than they were originally. that is a very i don t know how many people were talking about it. it could be out of the 20-some thousand or more or maybe 40,000 people. it could be maybe a small percentage of that. but we need to go forward with this. no, judge, i appreciate you raising the criteria. that s of course what would be applied. and that is really what is ultimately sick here. whatever the motivations, the republican plan would basically try to use less expertise, fewer lawyers to do a thing that the president could do either way. and it reminds us of some of the other areas where if this is the penalty for trying to work with ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140603:05:38:00

Identifying a swath of people and encouraging them to apply for clemency. but the very reason why that needs to happen is because it is universally recognized on both sides of the aisle, as i ve said, that something was wrong. and something was very wrong and needs to be corrected. congress did take some initial steps in doing that by passing the fair sentencing fact in 2010. the problem is they did not make that retroactive. so people who are serve k 10, 20, 25 years are not really are not affected by that. this mechanism allows for that to happen. and let me just point out that the criteria that the president and the attorney general have articulated for using this could not be more difficult to meet. if i could just refer to it, as you pointed out, the inmate has to have served ten years. it has to have been a first ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140603:02:38:00

He s now finishing i believe his first term. and i sense that as just pointed out, he is objecting to identifying a swath of people and encouraging them to apply for clemency. but the very reason why that needs to happen is because it is universally recognized on both sides of the aisle, as i ve said, that something was wrong. and something was very wrong and needs to be corrected. congress did take some initial steps in doing that by passing the fair sentencing fact in 2010. the problem is they did not make that retroactive. so people who are serve k 10, 20, 25 years are not really are not affected by that. this mechanism allows for that to happen. and let me just point out that the criteria that the president and the attorney general have articulated for using this could not be more difficult to meet. if i could just refer to it, as ....

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