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8 hours ago2 min read
Criminal Justice Advocates Back Trump's Choice Of 'Pardon Czar'
As a president known for governing on whims and holding mercurial beliefs, few of President Trump’s policies are as loaded with...
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By Ted Gest
Feb 123 min read
Is The U.S. System Of Clemency Far Too Political And Limited?
This winter's change of presidential administrations featured an outburst of clemency actions by leaders of both major political parties....
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 111 min read
Blagojevich Gets Full Pardon From Trump In Illinois Corruption Case
President Trump pardoned Rod Blagojevich, Illinois governor from 2003 to 2009, who was convicted of corruption-related crimes, including...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 101 min read
Biden Set Clemency Record, Although Pardon Total Was Low
Former President Biden granted more acts of clemency than any previous chief executive on record, finds a Pew Research Center analysis ...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 32 min read
DOJ Prosecutors Say Biden Cut Terms Of Violent Criminals
In the weeks before leaving office, President Biden and his advisers wanted to undo what they saw as an injustice—and make history—by...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 271 min read
Trump Prosecutor Protests Judge's Banning Oath Keepers From D.C.
A clash has erupted over the clemency President Trump granted to his supporters charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack, as a...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 222 min read
Do Biden, Trump Pardons Send 'Horrible Message' About Justice?
A day that began with an outgoing president’s pardon of lawmakers and his own family ended with an incoming president's pardons of...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 222 min read
Trump Pardons Dark Web Marketplace Creator Ulbricht
President Trump pardoned Ross William Ulbricht, the imprisoned creator of a dark web marketplace for drugs and other illicit products...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 212 min read
Biden Pardons Family, Including Brother Under DOJ Investigation
President Biden cast Monday's last-minute pardons of family members merely as an effort to shield them from the retribution of Donald...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 192 min read
Cheney, Fauci, Milley Among Trump Targets To Get Pre-Emptive Pardons
President Biden moved to guard some of President-elect Trump’s most high-profile adversaries against a promised campaign of “retribution”...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 171 min read
Biden Commutes 2,500 Non-Violent Drug Terms, More Clemency Likely
President Biden announced on Friday that he would commute the sentences of nearly 2,500 inmates serving long prison terms for nonviolent...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 4, 20242 min read
After Hunter Biden Pardon, Advocates Urge President To Grant More Clemency For Prisoners
After President Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter Biden this week for tax and gun law violations, hundreds of prisoners who have...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 25, 20241 min read
Oregon Governor Who Used Executive Clemency More Than 60,000 Times is "a Model," Report Finds
By the time she left office in January 2023, Governor Kate Brown of Oregon, over two terms, exercised her power of executive clemency a...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 15, 20242 min read
Presidential Clemency Numbers Trend Downwards
A trend toward a less generous executive has emerged in U.S. clemency history. So far, President Biden has been no exception. Biden has...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 17, 20241 min read
Maryland Governor Pardons Over 175,000 Marijuana Convictions
Maryland Gpv. Wes Moore signed an executive order to issue more than 175,000 pardons for marijuana convictions Monday. The administration...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 25, 20241 min read
Biden Grants Clemency To 16 Convicted Of Drug Crimes
President Joe Biden announced on Wednesday that he has granted clemency to 16 people who were convicted of non-violent drug crimes, the...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 14, 20241 min read
Some To Be Eligible For Clemency Soon, New Jersey Governor Says
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy says broad groups of people convicted of crimes, and who meet certain criteria, could become eligible for...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 2, 20242 min read
LA Governor Doles Out Record Number of Commuted Sentences
Gov. John Bel Edwards has spent his last months in office doling out mercy at a pace unseen in decades from a Louisiana governor. Edwards...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 22, 20231 min read
Biden Commutes Sentences For 11 Nonviolent Drug Offenders
President Biden is set to commute sentences of 11 people who are serving prison time for nonviolent drug offenses, The Hill reports. He...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 26, 20232 min read
How Trump's Commutation Hurt Federal Predatory Lending Probe
Jonathan Braun had served just two and a half years of a decade-long sentence for running a massive marijuana ring, when President Trump...
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