07/08/10
From HotAir
The quality of mercy in the Obama WH
is not strained, it’s nonexistent
| posted at 9:20 pm on July 7, 2010 by Ed Morrissey I swear I was just musing yesterday about what kind of pardons Barack Obama had issued during the first 17 months of his presidency and meant to do some research on the topic, but the Daily Caller beat me to it. What kind of sentences has he commuted, and who did he release from prison? For whom had he cleared records of criminality? His three immediate predecessors had controversial records on pardons, but Obama seems to have avoided that thus far — by having none at all: President Obama, during his 533 days in office, has issued no pardons and commuted no sentences. Only four other presidents — George Washington, John Adams, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush — waited longer to use their constitutional power of clemency, and Obama is on track to pass at least two of them. If no clemency actions are taken by Sunday, July 11, Obama will surpass Adams’s 536 days. If Obama waits until Christmas to approve his first pardons, as experts believe he will, he’ll pass Clinton’s 672 days on Nov. 24. The average wait until first pardon, across all 43 presidents (including Obama’s time to date), is 133 days. … Read more at HotAir (the site is worth a bookmark too.) * * * * * My theory: obuma is saving the pardons for himself and the czars.
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