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When the pardon power meets the Second Amendment

By Douglas A. Berman

I helpful reader pointed me to this great Wall Street Journal article comblining two of my favorite legal topics these days: the clemency power and gun rights. The article is headlined "Seeking a Presidential Pardon? Try Praising the Right to Bear Arms -- Five Forgiven by Bush Share a Trait: They Really Missed Their Weapons," and here are excrpts: On the surface, the list of the 14 people pardoned by the president this week shows few common denominators in terms of time served, geographic location or even type of crime, except that the felonies were non-violent.  But a closer look at some of the newly pardoned shows many of them are church-going, blue-collar workers from rural areas (and ardent Bush supporters) who had little trouble finding jobs after their convictions...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on November 30, 2008 (boomark / email).