Clemency
Civil Rights Groups Seek Expansion of White House Clemency
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Criminal justice advocates have long complained that the president’s clemency powers have not been used enough to spare low-level drug offenders.
Reforming the System
Can We Rethink the Pardon Power After Trump?
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The former president’s “irregular and undemocratic” use of pardons offers both a warning and an object lesson for future presidents, according to Margaret Love, former U.S. Pardon Attorney. A series of panels exploring reforms to the system began Tuesday.
Clemency
Does the President Need to Scrap the Pardon Power?
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A recent RAND study revealed the potential for racial bias, but the more fundamental problem is that the federal criminal legal system relies too heavily on the extraordinary power of the presidency to perform tasks that are essentially routine, writes a former U.S. Pardon Attorney.
Clemency
No ‘Systematic’ Racial Bias in Presidential Pardon Process: Report
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Though evidence of racial bias in the Office of the Pardon Attorney’s (OPA) pardon-petition practices is statistically insignificant, a RAND Corporation report found that successful pardon seekers are most likely to be U.S.-born white men who commit white collar crimes.
Clemency
Overhaul of Clemency Process Will Focus on Racial Justice
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In an effort seen as a rebuke of Donald Trump’s transactional approach to clemency, which bypassed the Justice Department with a wave of late pardons and commutations to people with wealth or connections, President Joe Biden’s administration has signaled that pardons or commutations could be implemented by the midpoint of his term.
Clemency
Critics Call Trump Self-Pardon Dangerous Precedent
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President Donald Trump has suggested to aides he wants to pardon himself, as well as family members and associates, in the final days of his presidency.
Clemency
14,000 Federal Inmates Seek Clemency; Who Will Get It?
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President Donald Trump so far has granted pardons or commutations mostly to people who had either a personal or political connection to the White House. Only seven were recommended by the federal pardon attorney.
Clemency
A Case Study of Fraudster’s Getting Trump Clemency
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Philip Esformes, guilty of one of the nation’s largest Medicare frauds, was spared by President Donald Trump after his family contributed to a Jewish humanitarian group that advances inmate rights.
Clemency
Manafort, Charles Kushner Pardoned by Trump
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President Donald Trump issued pardons and sentence commutations for 29 more people on Wednesday, including his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Charles Kushner, the father of his son-in-law and White House adviser, Jared.
Clemency
Trump Pardon List Favors the Well-Connected
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Some of President Donald Trump’s actions have seemed intended to send clear messages, such as grants of clemency for George Papadopoulos, the former campaign operative whose 2016 activities triggered the FBI probe that led to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.