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Washington Post rightly assials "Mr. Obama's lackluster pardons"

By Douglas A. Berman

Today's editorial page of the Washington Post includes this fitting attack on President Obama's pitiful clemency record.  Here are excerpts: [There were] nine people pardoned by President Obama this month. The pardoned offenses ranged from illegal possession of government property to felony liquor law violations to conspiracy to distribute cocaine.  Six of the pardons were for offenses so minor that they did not warrant time behind bars; six offenses were committed three decades ago, according to Pardon Power, a Web site that follows pardon and clemency issues.  In short, many who were pardoned are older and have lived productive lives relatively unhampered by their minor infractions. We do not begrudge [these nine] their pardons.  But we had hoped that Mr...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on December 31, 2010 (boomark / email).