Obama Pardons posts
NBC News By Tuesday, when Obama announced what could be his last clemency grants, Obama had issued a record number of commutations and just 212 pardons.
Obama's historic clemency push has a flip side: stinginess with pardons
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So far, Obama's number of pardons he has not come close to modern standards.
101 months ago
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Obama grants 78 pre-Christmas pardons
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President Obama granted 78 pardons and 153 commutations on Monday — an effort to make good on a promise to "reinvigorate" the president's constitutional power to grant clemency.
102 months ago
The Wall Street Journal President Obama granted clemency to 231 federal inmates, including 78 pardons, more than half of the total pardons he has ordered while in office, the White House announced Monday.
President Barack Obama Pardons 78, Cuts Sentences for 153
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Until now Mr. Obama had granted fewer pardons—70—than any of his predecessors since the Justice Department began publishing statistics.
102 months ago
Reuters Today was the President Obama's last time pardoning the National Thanksgiving Turkey. Reuters Pictures looks back on eight years of pardons: http://reut.rs/2gimfkW
103 months ago
Getty Images President Barack Obama's turkey pardons through the years.
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A look back at the Thanksgiving turkeys that were spared thanks to Obama.
103 months ago
The New Yorker Barack Obama has made the reduction of mass incarceration one of the touchstones of his final years in office. With an innovative approach to the Presidential pardon, he could really make a difference.
It’s Time for Obama to Go Big on Pardons
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President Obama is starting to come around on pardons, or at least with commutations, but he could take far bolder steps against mass incarceration.
114 months ago
The New Yorker Presidential pardons sometimes come with disastrous political repercussions. But President Obama could avoid this problem with an innovative approach, Jeffrey Toobin argues.
It’s Time for Obama to Go Big on Pardons
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President Obama is starting to come around on pardons, or at least with commutations, but he could take far bolder steps against mass incarceration.
114 months ago
MSNBC This is the most pardons Obama has issued at one time.
And just like that Obama commutes sentences of 95 prisoners and pardons 2
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The commutations mostly benefit nonviolent drug offenders.
114 months ago
MSN News Friday's list included 40 people serving life sentences.
Obama issues 95 Christmastime pardons, commutations
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Most of the commutations dealt with drug offenses, though the pardons involved counterfeiting and bank fraud.
114 months ago
ABC News President Barack Obama pardons turkeys "Honest" and "Abe" ahead of Thanksgiving: "America is after all a country of second chances...it is hard to believe that this is my 7th year of pardoning a turkey. Time flies, even if turkeys don't!"
115 months ago