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Who do you want President Bush to pardon?

By Douglas A. Berman

I am in DC today for an ABA event and so may be off-line most of the day.  While I am away, perhaps everyone use the comments to join the Washington Times is creating a pardon wish-list for President Bush.  In this editorial, headlined "Whom shall Bush Pardon?," the Times has a few specifics clemency suggestions for the out-going President: In his last weeks in office, President Bush has an opportunity to redress the scales of justice for a few individuals who were harshly punished and some who never should have been prosecuted.  In the former category is press baron Conrad Black, whose sentence Mr. Bush should commute.  In the latter category is Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff Lewis "Scooter" Libby, whom the president should pardon...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on December 08, 2008 (boomark / email).