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Obama shortens prison sentences of 111 convicts - White House
Reuters ^ | 8/30/16 | Staff

Posted on 08/30/2016 2:42:24 PM PDT by Nachum

WASHINGTON, Aug 30 - U.S. President Barack Obama shortened the prison sentences of 111 convicts serving time for drug-related offenses in his second round of clemency grants this month, the White House said on Tuesday. Obama has now granted a total of 673 commutations during his presidency, more than the number granted by the 10 previous presidents combined, as he seeks to reform the criminal justice system, it said. For some of the convicts, the commutations mean they will serve only half of their original prison sentences. For instance, Sly Stallone Aikens of South Carolina, serving a sentence of 36

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1 posted on 08/30/2016 2:42:24 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

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Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

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2 posted on 08/30/2016 2:43:04 PM PDT by Nachum (ISIS is alive... and Chris Stevens is dead)
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To: Nachum

Drugs and weapons offenders. I wonder how many are white?


3 posted on 08/30/2016 2:45:44 PM PDT by Ancient Man
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To: Nachum

So we can watch these convicts and verify the recidivism rates and see if Onambla and Soros were right (unlikely).

The unfortunate thing will be the lives lost to these people’s egos


4 posted on 08/30/2016 2:47:07 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: Nachum
[ transforming... something. ]


5 posted on 08/30/2016 2:47:54 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: Nachum

They are always concerned about the racial distribution to make sure there is no discrimination by race compared to the overall population. I wonder if they will adhere to their standard in this? Will the press push them to provide an explanation? .


6 posted on 08/30/2016 2:48:29 PM PDT by alternatives? (Why have an army if there are no borders?)
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To: Nachum
I'm going to go out on a limb and say all the cons were of the same pigmentation, right?

Is that raciss of me?

7 posted on 08/30/2016 2:48:32 PM PDT by PROCON ("Lock Her Up! Lock Her Up!")
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To: Nachum

We all knew this was coming....


8 posted on 08/30/2016 2:48:34 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (God bless the United States of America)
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To: PROCON

No, you’re just telling the truth.


9 posted on 08/30/2016 2:51:20 PM PDT by rdl6989
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To: Ouderkirk

If one does commit a crime, an enterprising lawyer could stir up a hornets next with a case against the Exec Branch, no?


10 posted on 08/30/2016 2:52:08 PM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (HTTP 500 - Internal Server Error)
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To: Nachum

Let me guess....109 of them are black or Hispanic.


11 posted on 08/30/2016 2:52:27 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Ouderkirk

“Death to Americans!” - Hussein


12 posted on 08/30/2016 2:52:44 PM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....I aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
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To: Nachum

Transforming Amerika....
destroying our economy and jobs
destroying or weakening our defenses and those of our allies
importing hundreds of thousands of enemy Islamic fighting-age-men trained to hate and want to destroy us
releasing violent criminals and drug pushers from jails
...
yes, the ONE thing he said that was true.... he wanted to Transform Amerika.... and he’s doing it right up to the end of his regime.... every damned day....


13 posted on 08/30/2016 2:53:37 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero.)
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To: Nachum

Just buffing up his “domestic security force”.


14 posted on 08/30/2016 2:56:38 PM PDT by Boogieman
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We ain’t seen nuthin’ yet with respect to pardons. He is going to take the pardon power to undreamed of levels before he leaves office, mark my words.


15 posted on 08/30/2016 2:58:41 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Nachum

That Obama would empty the prisons before leaving office was one of my original greatest fears about him becoming President.

Now everything I was worried would happen has come to pass.

I wish I had made a bet with some lefty in denial back then I could collect on. I can remember arguing with some lefties before Obama was elected that he would open the borders and allow a flood of illegals to enter, to which they claimed he would NEVER do such a thing.


16 posted on 08/30/2016 3:01:50 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, R)
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature
If one does commit a crime, an enterprising lawyer could stir up a hornets next with a case against the Exec Branch, no?

I'd be more interested in the reverse, as the War on Drugs ostensibly is rooted in the absolutely terrible Wickard case and uses congress's power over interstate commerce… except Raich revealed that commerce isn't required.

I think that the War on Drugs, just like the Federal Reserve raises interesting 'answers' to the question by what authority?, as they usually tend to be (a) circular reasoning or (b) appeal to [illegitimate] authority when pursued enough.

17 posted on 08/30/2016 3:03:23 PM PDT by Edward.Fish
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To: faithhopecharity

And without one ounce of resistance from our so-called ‘Other Side’ - Only people who HATE America and all it represents would do what Obama and his Globalist ilk have done and want todo . This is not incompetence on Obama’s part or not getting it, as I so often see people write even here on FR. I do have confidence, however, that this NWO Chaos will end up taking Obama, Soros, Satan’s team, et.al., down, down, down. Jesus will see to that with our help and prayers.


18 posted on 08/30/2016 3:05:26 PM PDT by Sioux-san
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To: Pearls Before Swine
We ain’t seen nuthin’ yet with respect to pardons. He is going to take the pardon power to undreamed of levels before he leaves office, mark my words.

I believe that you are correct, sir.
There's bad feelings between him and the Clintons, but it's not inconceivable that he'd pardon them*; it's not inconceivable that he'll pardon those involved with the Iran Deal; it's not inconceivable that he'll issue mass pardons in the last few weeks before the elections (111 really isn't a "mass pardon" in the sense I'm thinking).

* - Especially if he can get a I'll pardon you, you pardon me political deal out of it.

19 posted on 08/30/2016 3:08:18 PM PDT by Edward.Fish
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To: Sioux-san

it is not accidental and it is not incompetence

it is highly competent... they keep digging USA down more and more...in a consistent and persistent manner indicative of great deliberation, intent


20 posted on 08/30/2016 3:09:02 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero.)
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