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Tuesday, January 21, 2025
From Ford to Trump Redux—The Vagaries of Presidential Mercy
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On his first day in office President Jimmy Carter ordered a sweeping amnesty for Vietnam era draft resisters including those who had fled ...
Saturday, January 21, 2023
Ford to Biden—The Vagaries of Presidential Mercy
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Barack Obama was unusually active with clemency orders and pardons in his last days in office. In 2017 Barack Obama spent the last days of ...
Thursday, January 21, 2021
Barack Obama, Jimmy Carter, He Who Shall Not Be Named and Presidential Mercy
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Recipients of last minute pardons or sentence commutations from the former Resident indluded fascist mastermind Steve Bannon, below, and ra...
Thursday, January 23, 2020
Ford to Trump—Presidential Mercy
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Barack Obama was unusually active with clemency orders and pardons in his last days in office. In 2017 Barack Obama spent the last da...
Saturday, January 21, 2017
Barack Obama, Jimmy Carter and Presidential Mercy
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Barack Obama spent the last days of his churning out sentence commutations. Hundreds were given to non-violent drug offenders faci...
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