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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMay I ask, did POTUS Obama EVER have to commute ANYONES sentence??? Ah NO!!!!!
and this just makes me hurl......8 fawking years of NOTHING....NOTHING.....NOTHING....TO BE ASHAMED OF. NO CRIMES, NO CHARGERS, NO CONVECTIONS, NO NOTHING!!!!!
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May I ask, did POTUS Obama EVER have to commute ANYONES sentence??? Ah NO!!!!! (Original Post)
a kennedy
Jul 2020
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csziggy
(34,137 posts)1. President Obama did a lot of commutations
By the end of his second and final term on January 20, 2017, United States President Barack Obama had exercised his constitutional power to grant the executive clemencythat is, "pardon, commutation of sentence, remission of fine or restitution, and reprieve"[1]to 400 individuals convicted of federal crimes. Of the acts of clemency, 1715 were commutations (including 504 life sentences) and 212 were pardons.[2][3] Most individuals granted executive clemency by Obama had been convicted on drug charges,[4] and had received lengthy and sometimes mandatory sentences at the height of the war on drugs.[5]
Obama holds the record for the largest single-day use of the clemency power, granting 330 commutations on January 19, 2017, his last full day in office.[6][7] He also issued more commutations than the past 13 presidents combined.
More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_granted_executive_clemency_by_Barack_Obama
Obama holds the record for the largest single-day use of the clemency power, granting 330 commutations on January 19, 2017, his last full day in office.[6][7] He also issued more commutations than the past 13 presidents combined.
More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_granted_executive_clemency_by_Barack_Obama
Most commutations were reducing drug sentences. But since there was not one member of his administration charged or convicted of a crime, he never had to pardon or commute a sentence for any one he knew.
a kennedy
(29,696 posts)5. So your very last sentence I guess says exactly what I wanted to say.
csziggy
(34,137 posts)7. Im should have said I was confirming what I thought you meant
Sorry, I've very tired tonight, have been all week.
FBaggins
(26,756 posts)2. ?? He commuted hundreds of sentences
Or did you mean have to as to protect his own butt?
a kennedy
(29,696 posts)6. Yes.....
Ms. Toad
(34,086 posts)3. Nearly 2,000, actually.
1715 grants of commutation, 212 pardons.
https://www.justice.gov/pardon/obama-pardons
https://www.justice.gov/pardon/clemency-statistics
Cha
(297,513 posts)4. As per post #1.. President Obama did good
Commuting for harsh drug convictions.
a kennedy
(29,696 posts)8. I was just saying Barack didn't EVER commute sentences for his "cronies".....
Because he DIDNt have cronies. Right???
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,819 posts)9. Obama commuted hundreds of sentences, mostly drug offenses.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_granted_executive_clemency_by_Barack_Obama#:~:text=By%20the%20end%20of%20his,individuals%20convicted%20of%20federal%20crimes. He just didn't have to pardon anybody or commute the sentences of people who were co-conspirators with him in committing federal crimes.
Ahpook
(2,750 posts)10. I don't really like this power
given to the POTUS. As we witnessed today, it can be abused.
If it was ever used correctly, Leonard Peltier should have been pardoned ages ago. Why he still sits incarcerated is insane. But, people like Roger Stone go free.
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